Acute Nephritis short for Acute Glomerularnephritis is a common disease among
children. Knowing the characteristics of Acute Glomerularnephritis is very
important to decrease the damage to the patients. Therefore, it is very
necessary for the parents to learn more knowledge about Acute
Glomerularnephritis in children.
First, Acute Glomerularnephritis often occurs after acute infection.
It usually occurs after acute infection, mainly streptococcal infection. It
is mainly characterized with edema, decreased urine output, hematuria, and high
blood pressure. In severe cases, the children may have serious circulatory
congestion, heart failure, hypertensive encephalopathy, Acute Renal Failure and
so on.
Second, winter is the peak season of Acute Glomerularnephritis.
Acute Glomerularnephritis is common among the children aging 5~10, but is
rare in the children below 2 years old. Its incidence is higher in the boys with
2:1 in boys and girls. It often occurs in winter. Before the onset of the
disease, most of the children have acute upper respiratory tract infection or
skin infection. Tonsil inflammation is the most common cause of Acute
Glomerularnephritis in children. Usually, it occurs within 3 weeks of the
infection. Generally, the prognosis of the disease in children is good. However,
in some cases, it can develop into Chronic Nephritis.
Third,health care for the children with Acute Glomerularnephritis.
In the early time of Acute Glomerularnephritis, the children need to stay in
bed, which can decrease the pressure to hearts and improve heart function. Once
cardiac blood output increases, the renal plasma flow will also increase. It can
alleviate retention of water and sodium and other potential complications.
Therefore, the parents should know the important of rest for the children.
Generally, the children need to stay in bed for two weeks. When edema
disappears, the blood pressure recovers normal and gross hematuria disappears,
the children can have proper activity.
Fourth,diet for children with Acute Glomerularnephritis
(1)In the acute period, the children will have decreased urine output thus
causing edema. Therefore, at that time, the intake of salt should be limited
within 1~2 grams per day.
(2) If the children have serious edema, decreased urine output, they should
decrease the water intake. The amount of water intake should not exceed 400 ml
than the urine output of the previous day.
(3) The children with Acute Glomerularnephritis should limit the protein
intake. The metabolic product of protein is mainly excreted out of body by
kidneys. In the early stage of Acute Glomerularnephritis, the children’ renal
function usually decreases to some extent so the metabolic product of protein
can not be excreted out of body normally. Therefore, the children should
decrease the protein intake properly.
In most cases, Acute Glomerularnephritis in children can recover if the
children can have timely treatment and proper daily habits. If you want to get
more useful information about other aspects of Acute Glomerularnephritis in
children, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us on line. Hope
our endeavor can give your children a good recovery.