What are the harms of kidney disease in children to the body?

What harm does childhood kidney disease do to the body? Speaking of childhood kidney disease, many friends may not know much about it. Childhood kidney disease generally occurs in children aged six to nine. Therefore, parents with children of this age group need to pay special attention to observe their children and actively prevent childhood kidney disease. So, at this point, everyone must be very curious about the symptoms of childhood kidney disease. Let me introduce you to this aspect.

1. Symptoms of Kidney Disease in Children

1. Generally, children with kidney disease develop slowly, and the patients are tired, listless, and have anorexia. The age of onset of simple kidney disease is relatively young, mostly between 2 and 7 years old, while the age of onset of nephrotic kidney disease is relatively old, mostly over 7 years old. The gender distribution is more male than female, with a ratio of four to one. If kidney disease is suspected due to edema, some examination items should be done: blood routine, urine routine, bilateral kidney B-ultrasound, renal function test, and preliminary diagnosis can be made in combination with clinical symptoms.

2. Edema is the most obvious symptom of kidney disease in children: Edema often appears first, starting from the face and eyelids, and gradually spreads to the whole body. Simple kidney disease is often highly edematous, and the skin is sunken when pressed with fingers. In severe cases, the serous cavity is involved, and pleural effusion, ascites, hydrocele and scrotal edema occur, which can lead to dyspnea, diarrhea or vomiting. Edema recurs and occasionally disappears on its own. Edema in renal kidney disease is not as obvious as simple kidney disease, and can be very mild or even difficult to detect.

3. Hypoalbuminemia causes malnutrition and developmental delay, which is manifested by thin hair, dry skin, susceptibility to intertriginous rashes and ulcers, pale fingers and toes, dull complexion, pale lips and white coating. Children are tired, less active, apathetic, and prone to infection.

2. Clinical manifestations

1. There are often precursor infections such as acute tonsillitis and skin pustulosis 1-4 weeks before the onset of the disease. Symptoms include low-grade fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. These symptoms are no different from general fever infections and are not easy to attract people's attention and are often ignored.

2. Edema and oliguria are the characteristics of this disease. Generally, edema starts from the eyelids of the child and gradually spreads to the whole body. There is no depression when pressing with fingers. When edema occurs, the urine volume decreases significantly, or even disappears. In about 1-2 weeks, the urine volume gradually increases and the edema gradually subsides.

3. Most children's hematuria is invisible to the naked eye, and only a few children have visible hematuria. The color of hematuria may be bright red like meat washing water or dark tea color, which is related to the acidity and alkalinity of urine. It is hoped that this should be noted when observing the urine of children. Generally, this visible hematuria disappears within 1-2 weeks. The symptoms of children with hypertension are nausea, vomiting, and dizziness, but if the blood pressure rises too quickly, many serious complications will occur.

The above content is about the symptoms of childhood kidney disease. This is really great for people who don't know what childhood kidney disease is. After reading the above symptoms of childhood kidney disease and the early symptoms of childhood kidney disease, I believe everyone has understood it. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.