What does proteinuria 2 mean

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Living in daily life is more focused on finding problems. But recently, there is a symptom of foam urine. To go to hospital for examination, it is found that uric acid is high. What do you mean by urinary protein two? Do you want to know about it?

What does proteinuria 2 mean

First of all: the normal urine does not contain or only contains trace protein, the test result is negative (-), when the protein content in the urine rises to a certain amount, the test result is positive (+). Urine protein 2 + (+ +, two plus signs) is the result of 24-hour urine protein quantitative detection.

Secondly, it can also be expressed as two plus signs of urine protein and urine protein + 2, which means the same thing. The two plus signs of urinary protein mean that 1L urine contains 1.0-2.0g protein, i.e. 1.0-2.0g/24h.

Finally, the meaning of urinary protein 1 + and 3 + respectively means that urinary protein is 0.2-1.0g/24h: +, urinary protein is 2.0-4.0g/24h: + + +. Four plus signs of urinary protein: urinary protein > 4.0g/24h: + + +; negative or neutral: urinary protein < 0.1g/24h: -; urinary protein 0.1-0.2g/24h: ±.

matters needing attention

Patients with high urinary protein can be relieved by food therapy. Continuous high urinary protein will be one of the independent risk factors leading to poor prognosis of nephropathy, and the amount of urinary protein reflects the degree of disease. Therefore, patients must be treated early and timely after finding high urinary protein.