It is admitted by most nephrologists that IgA Nephropathy is not a simple
disease for it varies from one to another. At the early stage of IgA
Nephropathy, there usually no symptoms. So it is late when people are diagnosed
with IgA Nephropathy. However, you can find some symptoms early by observing
changes of urine.
Hematuria can be found by observing urine. Hematuria can be divided into
gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria. Simply speaking, gross hematuria or
macroscopic hematuria refers to that the urine is bloody, which is visible to
the naked eye. So if you find you have blood urine for 3 to 7 days and you have
no history of hurting urinary tract, you had better to see a doctor and take a
urine test.
To patients with IgA Nephropathy, their urine will be dark in 3 days after
some infections, such as cold. The dark red urine can last for several days to
even several weeks, then the color of urine turn to light. It is necessary for
people to take a urine test after one week dark urine. Usually, gross hematuria
means that their kidneys are under the situation of acute glomerulonephritis,
and microscopic hematuria means that their kidneys are under microinflammation
state. Due to inflammation, calculus, tumor, injury, congenital malformation are
the common causes for hematuria, if you want to make sure the real reason, you
can take blood test or test for kidneys.
Bubbles in urine is another signal for IgA Nephropathy. If you have bubbles
for more than one month and you have no Diabetes, the bubbles in urine maybe
leaked protein. You should pay attention first to make sure you don't have too
much protein, then observe the urine again. If the bubbles still in urine, it
maybe proteinurine.
we know, glomerulus blood capillary has good permeability on water and
electrolyte, but big molecular protein can not be eliminated from the glomerulus
blood capillary. So, protein urine can indicate the damage on glomerulus blood
capillary. Most patients with IgA Nephropathy has proteinurine and over 60% of
them go to see a doctor for bubbles in urine.
IgA Nephropathy also have other symptoms, such as edema, high blood pressure
and so on, but the easy way to find it is observing urine. In addition, if
everyone can take physical examinations regularly, they can find abnormal
symptoms early, then treat it early. If you want to know more about IgA
Nephropathy, you can email me: kidney-treatment@hotmail.com