Urine Occult Blood

Urine occult blood is examined through routine urianlysis, there is a red blood cell in the urine occult blood. If the red blood cells increase, (normal is negative), and the number of it is few, it can be called urine occult blood. While urine occult blood itself can be an index to decide whether it is negative or positive and if it is positive, how many + are there in it. We should consider the problems of the kidneys or it may be caused by urinary tract infection if the urine occult blood occurred generally.

Generally speaking, urine occult blood are caused by the following three reasons:

Inflammation, stones and tumour.

For the area of inflammation, such as glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, urocystitis and so on. In the examination of urine, it may be have hematuresis, and also occult blood. The stones themselves, no matter the kidneys, ureter, or cystolith all can cause occult blood. Other conditions, such as physiological and constipation may also cause occult blood.

The meaning of occult blood +

If the urine, after going through centrifugation, per high power field under the microscope have more than 2 red blood cells can be called occult blood. Under the microscope, if find 10 red cells, it can be counted as “+1”, if find 20 red cells, it can be counted as “+2”, if 30, it can be counted as “+3”, if 40, it can be counted as “+4”, which is to say, the more the + are, the more damage of the kidney inherent cells are. For example, the meaning of occult blood+2 is that after the urine was centrifugated, we can find 20 red blood cells under the high-power microscope.

“+”means the inherent cells of the kidneys began to be damaged, the filtration function of the kidney have already been damaged by the immune medium compound. Therefor, if the patients can not be treated effectively, the number of the glomerulus damaged or hyperplastic will be more and more, and the degree of damage of the kidneys will increase gradually. At this time we should accept systematically and regular treatment, thus actively suppress the development of the fibrotic kidneys.

We should treat the diseases rightly and keep optimistic moods: Because kidney patients have long time been ill and the state of illness usually repeated, the treatment lack effective methods, which make many patients easily have the fidges, become pessimistic, even generate the emotion of abandonment. These can directly damage the physical and psychological health and influence the state of illness. It is very important to keep optimistic emotion. If we can self-control constantly, make the spirit nerve be in a steady state from beginning to end can benefit the recovery of the illness.