How to distinguish acute and chronic nephritis

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During this period of time, my uncle often urinates frequently and anxiously, and he is weak all over, but he did not cause housework, and thought that he was too tired recently. But in recent days, he found that he had hematuria, and he had pain in the urinary tract when he was urinating. When he went to the hospital for examination, he found that he was suffering from nephritis. But the doctor said nephritis is divided into many kinds, and each treatment method is not the same, the symptoms are not the same. Most of the nephritis is divided into acute and chronic, next I will tell you how to distinguish between acute nephritis and chronic nephritis

How to distinguish acute and chronic nephritis

First: edema is the first symptom of nephritis patients. It usually starts from the face, and then involves the lower limbs. In serious cases, when you open your eyes, close your eyes, clench your fist and walk, you will feel the swelling of eyelids, palms and feet. The course of disease is short, generally less than 1 year; after appropriate rest and Shenning powder treatment, the prognosis is better, otherwise it may turn into chronic nephritis. If it is acute nephritis, may be weak, often like to close the eyes, it is difficult to open the eyes.

Second: in the case is oliguria, acute nephritis oliguria and edema at the same time, and deep color urine, daily urine volume can be less than 400 ml, individual patients and even no urine. Another 1 / 3 of the patients will have hematuria, eyes can find urine color is dark brown, usually for several days or even weeks. Acute progressive nephritis also has the characteristics of oliguria, accompanied by nausea, fatigue and loss of appetite and other early symptoms. Patients with acute nephritis have less urine, no matter how much water they drink, it is difficult to urinate.

Third: for patients with acute nephritis, respiratory tract infection or skin tissue infection usually appears in the early stage, such as acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, skin tissue abscess, etc. Most of chronic glomerulonephritis have no history of acute glomerulonephritis or streptococcal infection, so the pathogenic factors are difficult to determine. Occult nephritis, like chronic nephritis, usually has no history of acute or chronic nephritis or renal disease. If it is acute nephritis, it may cause some other diseases, such as pharyngitis and tonsillitis. All human diseases are acute.

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Nephritis can be generally divided into acute nephritis, progressive nephritis, chronic nephritis, occult nephritis four, for the initial symptoms of these kinds of nephritis are also biased, generally in addition to occult nephritis, the most initial symptoms of other types of nephritis have one characteristic, that is facial edema. In the early stage, acute nephritis is easy to show, but the symptoms of chronic nephritis is not obvious, and the other two kinds of nephritis have no obvious symptoms, and become more and more serious in the later stage.