Will kidney disease recur in children?

Why do children have recurrent kidney disease? Do you know about nephritis? Nephritis is a non-suppurative inflammatory lesion of both kidneys. Nephritis is the most common type of kidney disease. There are many types of nephritis. Nephritis is more common in adolescents under 30 years old, which seriously endangers the health of patients. Let's take a look at why nephritis is prone to recurrence.

According to TCM theory, the kidney is an important organ for the body's water metabolism, which absorbs qi, produces marrow, and stores essence. The basic substances of human life activities are qi, blood, and body fluids. The heart and kidney, liver and kidney, spleen and kidney can control each other. Therefore, when the kidney is inflamed, it will cause symptoms such as edema, urgency, frequent urination, inability to urinate, and hematuria. According to a large amount of medical data, the kidney has the function of promoting urine production, excreting metabolic products of the body, maintaining the relative stability of the body's internal environmental purification factors, maintaining acid-base balance, and regulating blood pressure. Therefore, the burden on the kidney is very heavy.

Patients with chronic nephritis are prone to flare-ups and worsening of their condition once they encounter adverse factors, which can make the original treatment results go to waste.

1. Incomplete treatment

Improper treatment methods. Many patients with acute and chronic nephritis have not received systematic and regular treatment. Some even use nephrotoxic drugs: amino drugs, gentamicin, kanamycin and streptomycin for treatment. This is not only not conducive to treatment, but also aggravates the condition to a great extent. Many patients say that they have been treated every year, spent a lot of money, and wasted a lot of time, but still have repeated attacks. The condition has also become increasingly aggravated with repeated attacks, and eventually developed into the middle and late stages of kidney disease... uremia.

2. Inadequate prevention

Not paying attention to diet: Not always following the diet prescribed by the doctor, eating daily, consuming too much sodium and high-potassium food, which increases the burden on the kidneys and heart.

3. Infection from other diseases

(1) Bacterial or viral infection: This is the most common cause, especially upper respiratory tract infection (common cold), asymptomatic bacteriuria, influenza, pharyngitis, tracheobronchitis, etc. can aggravate the symptoms of chronic nephritis.

(2) Stress state: The so-called stress state refers to various causes of external overload on the body, such as sudden gastrointestinal bleeding, severe gastroenteritis, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, anaphylactic shock, etc., which exceed the body's ability to withstand stress. It mainly refers to the adrenal cortex's urgent adjustment of the secretion of adrenal cortical hormones in order to cope with the sudden stimulation. Various stress states can cause chronic nephritis to worsen acutely.

Usually, due to the above reasons, clinical manifestations similar to acute nephritis appear on the same day or within a few days, such as proteinuria, worsening hematuria, edema, hypertension, oliguria, and even renal insufficiency.