How to Deal with Poroteinuria and Hematuia in FSGS

Proteiuria and hematuria are the two common symptoms of FSGS, how to deal with proteinuria and hematuira concerns patients a lot? If you have the same doubt, you are recommended to read the following.

Proteinuria or protein in the urine is frequently the earliest symptom of kidney disease. You will have read, in the previous section, how the kidney works and that the kidney has about a million filters. When the kidney is healthy it allows very little protein into the urine. If these filters become leaky, small amounts of protein will leak into the urine. This is frequently an early sign of kidney trouble long before the kidney function itself begins to deteriorate.

dipstickDoctors frequently test patient’s urine for the presence of blood or protein, to try to detect kidney disease early. There are many causes of protein in the urine, including diabetes and glomerulonephritis. Whilst your doctor will conduct a number of special blood tests, to try to determine the underlying cause, it may be necessary to undergo a kidney biopsy, to establish the exact cause of the protein.

Patients who have very large amounts of protein in the urine, (greater than 3 grams), are described as having nephrotic syndrome. Patients with nephrotic syndrome frequently have swollen legs.

Haematuria or blood in the urine can either be present in amounts that you can see (macrascopic) or in amounts that you cannot see (microscopic) in which it is only detected with urine testing. Blood in the urine may not appear red but more like strong tea coloured.

Blood in the urine is frequently an alarming symptom and it should never be ignored. However, it only takes a few drops of blood for the urine to turn red. There are a large number of potential causes of blood in the urine including: urine infection, kidney stones, kidney or bladder tumours and inflammation in the kidney called glomerulonephritis (GN).

If you have haematuria, the first thing your doctor will do is to make sure you do not have a urine infection or bladder or kidney tumour. To do this, you will usually need to have a number of scans of the kidney and may well need a cystoscopy. A cystoscopy is a test in which a camera with a light is inserted into the bladder. If these tests are normal your doctor will then focus on determining if the blood is coming from kidney inflammation or glomerulonephritis. This may require further specific blood and urine tests or a kidney biopsy.


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