What causes chronic nephritis in children?

More and more children are now suffering from chronic nephritis, and the development trend is also showing an increasing trend. Once a child develops this type of disease, the parents are the most worried. If your child has this type of disease, you must take your child to a doctor in time for professional treatment and do not delay. What causes chronic nephritis in children? Let’s learn about it below.

Chronic nephritis in children refers to chronic glomerulonephritis in childhood, abbreviated as nephritis, which is relatively rare in clinical practice. One of the symptoms is a slow onset, and the early symptoms are not obvious, manifested as mild edema (face and upper eyelids), slightly pale complexion, fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness, etc.

So what causes chronic nephritis in children and what are the symptoms?

1. The onset is slow and the early symptoms are not obvious, manifested as mild edema (face and upper eyelids), slightly pale complexion, fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness, etc.

2. The disease progresses slowly, the condition often recurs, and the symptoms vary from mild to severe. The condition is often aggravated or acute due to upper respiratory tract infection, enteritis, etc. Symptoms include edema, worsening systemic symptoms, azotemia, severe acidosis or electrolyte imbalance, hypertension, and even hypertensive encephalopathy and heart failure. There may be no symptoms or only mild symptoms during the intervals between attacks.

3. Persistent hypertension, mild edema and anemia are often the basic symptoms of chronic nephritis.

4. If the disease is delayed to the late stage, renal failure may occur, manifested by hypertension, progressive anemia, general weakness, dizziness, headache, visual impairment, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding tendency and other symptoms of azotemia, uremia and acidosis.

5. Sometimes during the course of the disease, the patient may show symptoms of kidney disease, such as general edema, decreased urine volume, and normal or slightly elevated blood pressure. Some patients may show obvious symptoms of kidney disease at the onset of the disease.

6. The fundus may show changes such as exudative inflammation, hemorrhage, optic disc edema, and arterial spasm and tortuosity.

Parents must pay great attention to children with chronic nephritis, because it seriously affects the healthy growth of children. So what causes chronic nephritis in children? In fact, the specific cause is not very clear. It may be due to chronic nephritis caused by multiple acute infections. No matter what the cause is, you must go to a regular professional hospital for treatment in time and recover as soon as possible.