Characteristics of kidney disease in children

Nowadays, many patients with kidney disease are children. Many parents have such questions in their hearts. Children are in the stage of growing up. If they have kidney disease, it will cause great harm to the healthy growth of children and affect their healthy growth. In this regard, everyone must pay attention to it. So what are the characteristics of kidney disease in children?

Children with kidney disease should go to the hospital for examination. Usually, doctors can easily find obvious changes in the urine of children with kidney disease. That is, the red blood cells and white blood cells increase significantly, and symptoms such as urine sugar and proteinuria will also appear. Such situations indicate that there may be problems with the child's kidney function. Parents need to take their children for further examination to determine the type and severity of the disease.

Hematuria is a common and serious symptom of kidney disease in children, and it is also a symptom that is difficult to detect, because hematuria can be divided into macroscopic hematuria and microscopic hematuria. Macroscopic hematuria is hematuria that can be seen with the naked eye. The urine is turbid and red like meat washing water. Some children with kidney disease have blood streaks or blood clots in their urine. Microscopic hematuria can only be found under a microscope, and the number of occult blood (bld) is greater than 1 per high-power field of view. Hematuria is the most common symptom of most children with chronic kidney disease. Of course, there are many causes of hematuria, and kidney disease is just one of them.

The main cause of early childhood nephropathy is that the kidneys' water excretion and regulation function is damaged, which increases the amount of water and sodium in the body of children with nephropathy. Excessive water accumulates in the loose tissues of the body, and the eyelids are the part with more loose tissues. The main cause of early childhood nephropathy is that the kidneys' water excretion and regulation function is damaged, which increases the amount of water and sodium in the body of children with nephropathy. Excessive water accumulates in the loose tissues of the body, and the eyelids are the part with more loose tissues.

The kidney is the main organ for excreting water from the body. When the kidney is diseased, water cannot be excreted from the body and is retained in the body, which is called renal edema. The degree of edema can be mild or severe. In mild cases, there is no visible edema, only weight gain (hidden edema) or slight swelling of the eyelids in the morning. In severe cases, there may be obvious edema all over the body, and even pleural and abdominal effusion, resulting in a weight gain of dozens of kilograms (severe edema).

When the kidneys are diseased, renal blood flow decreases, the renal parenchyma is congested, and the secretion of renin increases. Through the action of renin-angiotensin, the adrenal cortex is prompted to increase the secretion of aldosterone, leading to increased reabsorption and retention of water and sodium in the renal tubules.

For children with kidney disease, parents must give their children effective treatment in a timely manner. Whether it is children's kidney disease or adult kidney disease, the early symptoms are not too obvious, so it is very important for parents to give their children regular health checks, so that the disease can be discovered in time and the children can be treated in time so that the children can recover as soon as possible.