Early Signs of Children Kidney Disease

Nowadays, children kidney disease is very common which affects children’s life and health seriously. Due to children’s special constitution, they may also develop many severe complications, which even threatens their life. However, those children’s parents do not have basic knowledge about early signs of kidney disease, which delays their treatment and leads to serious consequences.
Early Sign No. 1, abnormal urine problem. Frequent nigh urination, (also called nocturnal enuresis) and dark urine color without reasonable causes and foamy urine. Once they have such kind of symptoms of kidney disease, parents should pay enough attention to it and take the kid to see a doctor in time.
Early Sign No. 2, low blood volume and shock. When children patients have severe swelling in their whole body, blood volume will decrease. And if they are given diuretics or vomit, they also will have low blood volume, or even shock when it is very serious.
Early Sign No. 3, edema, this is a very common symptoms of children nephropathy. When it is not very serious, edema only happens in eyelids or other tender parts which could disappear spontaneously, but it extends to whole body when the disease is very severe.
Early Sign No. 4, infection. This is also another very common early symptoms of kidney disease, which mainly is respiratory infection, besides, there are also intestinal tract infection and urinary tract infection, etc.
Early Sign No. 5, Anemia. When children’s kidneys are damaged seriously, the kidneys secrete less erythropointin which is a kind of very important raw material of blood cells, as a result, children patients will have pale complexion, malnutrition and strain, etc.

After knowing the above-mentioned information, parents should be alert with those signs, and take action as early as possible in order not to delay children’s best time for their kidney disease treatment.

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