Is nephritis serious in children?

Generally speaking, nephritis often occurs after a cold or other inflammation of the body, and is mainly caused by bacterial infection. People with nephritis should pay attention to rest and it is best to actively seek treatment. So is nephritis serious in children? Let me introduce it to you below.

This disease often has precursor infections such as acute tonsillitis and skin pustulosis 1-4 weeks before the onset of the disease. Symptoms initially include low fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. These symptoms are no different from general fever infection, are not likely to attract people's attention, and are often ignored. Edema and oliguria are the characteristics of this disease. Generally, the edema starts from the child's eyelids and gradually spreads to the whole body. There is no depression when pressing with fingers. When edema occurs, the urine volume is significantly reduced or even absent. Within about 1-2 weeks, the urine volume gradually increases and the edema gradually subsides.

In most children, hematuria is invisible to the naked eye, and only a small number of children have visible hematuria. The color of hematuria can be bright red like meat washing water or dark tea color. This is related to the acidity and alkalinity of urine. I hope you will pay attention to this when observing the urine of children. Generally, this visible hematuria disappears within 1-2 weeks. Children with hypertension experience nausea, vomiting, and dizziness, but if blood pressure rises too quickly, many serious complications may occur.

At present, the medical and health conditions in my country's cities have been greatly improved. Chronic nephritis can be treated promptly when it occurs, so serious cases are rare in cities, but they still occur in remote rural areas. If these serious diseases are not discovered early and treated in time, they can lead to the death of the child.

In the early stage of the disease, the child's urine volume decreases significantly, edema worsens, breathing becomes rapid, heart rate increases, and irritability occurs. Then the condition may deteriorate rapidly, with difficulty breathing, inability to lie flat, pale complexion, cold limbs, frequent coughing, and pink foamy sputum, indicating that the child has heart failure.

If the child experiences severe dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and transient blindness in the early stages of the disease, or in severe cases, sudden convulsions and coma, these are manifestations of hypertensive encephalopathy. Some severe cases develop chronic renal failure in the early stages.