Protein in urine is dangerous
Nephrotic syndrome, also known as proteinuria, is a medical condition when your kidneys discharge more than a certain amount of protein in your urine. These complications usually occur due to problems with your kidney filters. This problem usually occurs with increasing age, but nowadays due to our changing eating habits and poor lifestyle, this problem is being seen even in children.
How does the problem of nephrotic syndrome occur?
Glomeruli are small blood vessels in our kidneys. It works to remove all types of waste and excess fluids from our blood and removes them from the body through urine. Common waste products that are excreted from our body include nitrogenous waste (urea), muscle waste (creatinine) and many other toxic acids.
In healthy kidneys, glomeruli filter waste products. They allow your blood to retain the cells and proteins that your body needs to function regularly. But when the glomeruli gets damaged due to some reason then it is unable to stop the protein from passing into the urine, which also includes albumin. Therefore it is also called albumin urea.
Is nephrotic syndrome dangerous
Nephrotic syndrome is a serious condition that can lead to many problems if not treated or prevented. This problem is more common in diabetic patients and kidney patients.
Problems caused by nephrotic syndrome
In case of nephrotic syndrome, the release of protein from the body can cause many problems. Some types of proteins prevent blood clotting, but when they go out of the body, the problem of blood clotting becomes common. At the same time, due to lack of protein, your immunity gets affected due to which you can quickly get infected with some disease. Therefore, people with nephrotic syndrome are more at risk of pneumonia, cellulitis and peritonitis than the general population.
Symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome
– Large amounts of the protein albumin in your urine, more than 3.5 grams.
– Problems arising from high cholesterol
– Swelling in many parts of the body, increasing swelling on the face including feet, ankles, hands.
– Low level of albumin in your blood.
– loss of appetite
– feeling unwell or sick
– Pain in stomach and ribs
– foamy urine
Problems arising as nephrotic syndrome increases
When Nephrotic Syndrome increases, along with protein, essential minerals like calcium and Vitamin D also start coming out through urine. Due to this, the person may have the problem of osteoporosis. In this, the bones of the body become very weak.
– In case of nephrotic syndrome, sometimes the kidney also stops working suddenly.
– Many times this leads to the complaint of anemia.
– The risk of heart attack also increases because plaque starts accumulating in the arteries carrying blood to the heart.
Due to this the problem of high blood pressure also increases.
Causes of Nephrotic Syndrome
– This is mostly seen in diabetic patients.
– This problem also arises when glomeruli are damaged.
– kidney related diseases
– Weakening of kidney function
Nephrotic syndrome can be detected through urine test. If the amount of protein urea in urine exceeds the prescribed limit, then there can be a complaint of nephrotic syndrome.
Nephrotic syndrome prevention
– Control blood pressure.
– Do not let cholesterol increase.
– Do not allow swelling and any kind of kidney infection.
– Eat a healthy diet, include green leafy vegetables, protein-rich diet and seasonal fruits in your diet.
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