Can patients with chronic nephritis be pregnant

Chronic nephritis is also called chronic glomerular nephritis,its clinical manifestations are proteinuria,edema and high blood pressure. It has longer duration and merging pregnancy are not uncommon.pregnancy can increase the burden of kidney and accordingly cause the symptoms mentioned above.

According to the varying degrees of nephritis, it also has different effects on the development of fetus. For patients have both chronic nephritis and high blood pressure often accompanied by placental function decline and insufficient supply of fetal blood. So people of this group should not be pregnant, because about 75% of these people will be complicated by severe pih high blood syndrome and stillbirth rate is extremely high.
Besides, patients whose renal function does not restore normal together with protein quantity, blood urea nitrogen and creatinine increasing, need to prevent renal failure appear. Thus patients are also not suitable to be pregnant. They should take induced abortion if it is early pregnancy.
However, if the chronic nephritis patients has basically normal renal function as well as only a small amount of urine protein and has a period of stability, then they can be pregnant, but should have a good rest and compensate enough nutrition like food contain high quality protein and vitamin. In addition, increasing the body resistance and avoiding all kinds of infections also do good for the recovery.
Clinical experience has proved that pregnant can aggravate the progression of nephritis and shorten the life span of patients.
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