Symptoms of the acute glomerulonephritis

Acute glomerulonephritis is called acute nephritis for short. Some people call it acute nephritic syndrome because of the difference of pathogenesis. It is a diffuse glomerular non suppurative inflammatory lesion caused by the immunoreaction after the infections. It is mainly edema, oliguria, hematuresis and high blood pressure clinically. The sick children usually have influenza, amygdalitis or purulent skin and other precursor diseases in the premorbid period. This disease is the most common kidney disease in the infantile period, which is commonly seen with 3 to 8 years old children, children under 2 years old are rarely seen. The prognosis is usually well. The course of disease is six months or one year, patients who can develope to the chronic nephritis are rarely.

While what symptoms will occur with acute glomerulonephritia?

1. The majority of the patients have resiratory tract infection, skin infection, some virus infections and other precursor history of infections.

2. Edema: The edema begin with the eyelids, it is downward and non pitting.

3. Oliguria and hematuresis: 24 hours urine volume is below 200ml with infants, 300ml with preschoolers and 400ml with school children. The color of gross hematuria can be the sample of the washing water or the strong tea samples.

4. Headache, vomiting, convulsion, disturbance of consciousness and other hypertensive encephalopathies will occur if the patients have the high blood pressure or the pressure of the patients obviously rise.

5. Patients can have cough, anhelation, palpitate, pulmonary rale and other severe back to the circle congestion manifestations.

These symptoms help us find the disease early and also treat it early. Therefore the disease can be treated well early.