Symptoms of acute nephritis in men

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Nephritis can be divided into acute and chronic. Generally speaking, children and male friends are more acute. However, due to the early symptoms are not very obvious, often ignored by patients and their families, it is necessary to clarify the main clinical manifestations of acute nephritis, which is related to whether the disease can be timely and effective treatment.

Symptoms of acute nephritis in men

Patients need to be aware that acute nephritis has a latent period, and the onset will be about one to three weeks after the infection. Hematuria and proteinuria are typical symptoms, almost all patients have glomerular hematuria, about 30% of patients can have gross hematuria. Most patients will also be accompanied by mild to moderate proteinuria. After urine precipitation, in addition to red blood cells, white blood cells and epithelial cells will increase.

Edema is also the main clinical manifestation of acute nephritis, especially in the early stage of the disease, we often see different degrees of edema in the body. Especially in the morning, the eyelids or lower limbs have mild concave edema, but there are also a few patients with serious condition, which will affect the whole body, and the swelling phenomenon is obvious. And patients will be accompanied by hypertension, the severity of the situation is different, a small number of patients with severe hypertension, and even hypertensive encephalopathy.

When the onset of acute nephritis, patients will have abnormal renal function. At this time, the glomerular filtration rate is reduced, and the retention of sodium and water leads to a decrease in urine output * and a few patients will suffer from oliguria. However, the acute attack can be relieved and eliminated after a period of time, and the renal function can gradually return to normal after diuresis. In addition, congestive heart failure is also very easy to appear, need emergency treatment.

matters needing attention

The above clearly introduces the main clinical manifestations of acute nephritis, hoping to provide some reference and help for patients. After getting sick, they often suffer from different degrees of attacks and injuries due to various symptoms. At this time, only by timely detection and correct treatment can we really solve the problem. If the treatment time is delayed again and again, it is easy to evolve into chronic attack.