Why a lot of glomerular nephritis patients can be “asymptomatic”

Chronic glomerular nephritis patients be “asymptomatic” for a long term is associated with many factors. Here are some situations concerned.

1. Chronic nephritis is very easy to be ignored, because each kidney is composed of more than 10 million renal units and each nephron has strong ability to work. Each nephron can complete the workload which usually be done by 3~4 nephrons, so symptoms will appear only when the glomerular has been damaged more than half. What’s more, nephrons is non -renewable, once damaged, it will less and less as time goes by. The deterioration of renal function will have imperceptible development long before the clinical symptoms appear. However, when patients consider to see a doctor, the disease has developed into very serious stage.
2. Patients do not know the knowledge of kidney disease very well. Many patients in kidney disease know less or nothing about kidney disease. What’s worse, the symptoms of kidney disease, which are just lumbar acid, fatigue, edema, etc., are not very specific, so it’s easy to be ignored. Some other people don’t pay high attention to these symptoms, they just think these symptoms are just caused by fatigue, and if they rest for a period of time they will be fine. Neither you neglect it casually, nor you didn't care for the disease, the condition of your disease will deteriorate slowly in an imperceptible way. Therefore, when the patients have obvious symptoms or they can’t recover after a rest , they come to see the doctor eventually , but the extent of the disease has been very serious.
3. Early diagnosis lack sensitive index. Now all the renal function checks have some limitations, especially the diagnosis of the early nephropathy. This is because noninvasive examination isn't sensitive enough, while invasive examination is risky, so patients are often reluctant to accept it.
Above all, patients should pay special attention to every change in the body and take treatments as soon as possible.

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