An Introductin of Childhood Nephropathy

Nephropathy is a condition that affects the kidneys. It requires special attention. Most children with nephropathy make a full recovery within a few weeks. This leaflet has been prepared to help children and their families understand what happens to a child who has nephropathy.
When your child first develops nephropathy they will need some blood and urine tests. These are done to see how well the kidneys are working and to look for the cause of the kidney inflammation. Over the first few days they will need further blood tests to monitor their progress.
We will need to monitor how much urine is passed during the day, and how much your child drinks.
Usually the tests and monitoring are carried out in hospital. Only if your child has unusual features for their nephropathy will we consider a renal biopsy. The kidney specialist will discuss this with you and give you more information.
Nephrotic syndrome is a set of signs or symptoms that may point to kidney problems. Both children and adults can have nephrotic syndrome. The causes of and treatments for nephrotic syndrome in children are sometimes different from the causes and treatments in adults. Childhood nephrotic syndrome can occur at any age but is most common between the ages of 1.5 and 5 years. It seems to affect boys more often than girls. A child with nephrotic syndrome has these signs: high levels of protein in the urine, a condition called proteinuria, low levels of protein in the blood, swelling resulting from buildup of salt and water, less frequent urination, weight gain from excess water. Nephrotic syndrome is not itself a disease. But it can be the first sign of a disease that damages the kidney’s tiny blood-filtering units, called glomeruli, where urine is made.
Points to Remember
* Nephrotic syndrome is a set of signs or symptoms that may point to kidney problems.
* Childhood nephrotic syndrome is most common between the ages of 1.5 and 5 years.
* Nephrotic syndrome causes proteinuria, low levels of protein in the blood, less frequent urination, and swelling and weight gain from the buildup of fluid.
* Diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome requires urine and blood samples and may include a kidney biopsy.
* Most cases of childhood nephrotic syndrome result from minimal change disease.
* The two most common diseases that damage the kidneys’ tiny blood-filtering units and cause nephrotic syndrome are focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.
* Congenital nephropathy is a rare condition that causes nephrotic syndrome in newborns.

Diabetics with Nephropathy should Start Dialysis Early

Usually, Patients with diabetic nephropathy are recommended to start dialysis earlier than others with Renal Failure. This is because the process from diabetic nephropathy to Renal Failure is rapid, especially for diabetic patients with high blood pressure.
Blood vessels related disease, one kind complication of diabetes, occurs with high incidence rate. Once GFR is less than 15ml/min/1.73 m2，high blood pressure will be out of control. In this case, fundus hemorrhage and disease of heart head blood-vessel may probably happen.
Unlike other kidney disease, serum creatinine cannot reflect patients’ real condition. Besides, sodium and water retention, anemia and Systemic poisoning are more serious in the body of diabetic patient than other patients with Renal Failure.
Due to the above reasons, diabetic patient with Renal Failure should start dialysis earlier.
Then when is the early time?
When GFR is 15 to 20ml/min/1.73 m2 and patients have swelling and decrease urine output, dialysis should be started. If a patient well controls his blood pressure and have better nutritional conditions, he could start dialysis when GFR is 10 to 15 ml/min/1.73 m2.
If a patient has refractory dropsy and severe hypertension and malnutrition, he must start much earlier.
For those patients refusing dialysis, they could choose other treatments, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant, for example. These treatments can well treat Renal Failure by rebuilding kidney structures and increasing renal functions.
The core technology of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is to make the effective prescriptions of Chronic Renal Failure superfinely shattered; and than with the help of penetrant and osmosis devices, the medicine is permeated into the kidney lesions. The medicines could block fibrosis of the kidneys by dilating the blood vessels, degrading extra cellular matrixes, anti-inflammation and anticoagulation, and thus improving inside milieu of your body. And then Stem Cell Transplant is applied by transfusion under such clean milieu. Stem cells play an important role in repairing the damaged renal cells and rebuilding the structure of you kidneys, due to stem cells’ ability of self-renewing and differentiating into functional cells of various tissues. Compared with dialysis, this treatment is better in terms of repairing damaged renal cells and rebuilding the functions of your kidneys. However, dialysis only can filtrate metabolic waste and excess water out of the blood.
Whatever you choose, you had better take action early. As is known to all, early treatment often greatly changes the outcomes.
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