Glomerulonephritis

What is glomerulonephritis? Symptoms, treatment and prevention of glomerulonephritis.

Content

Human kidney is organ filtering of our body.
Harmful substances and fluids from blood through a special system
capillaries (the smallest blood vessels), which
called the kidney glomerulum (glomerule), fall into the renal
capsule, and already from numerous renal capsules — in the kidney where
Collected and displayed in the form of urine. As a result of multiple or
Long contact with infection may fail in the body's immune system,
And she begins to act against our own cells located
In the walls of the kidney club (Glomerul). As a result in the kidneys
The inflammation of autoimmune nature, affecting precisely renal
Clubs, T.E. The system of transfer of the body of the body in the kidney. This is
disease and called glomerulonephritis (from Greek. NEPHROS — bud,
Novolat. Glomerulus — tangle).

What happens to

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Glomerulonephritis can develop after suffering infection, usually
Streptococcal (alarg, tonsillitis, now rarely found
scarlet fever). The disease can develop and after other infections —
bacterial, viral, parasitic, less often — As a result of administration
Serums, vaccines or medicines. Also according to research
Recent years, glomerulonephritis is closely related to hypertensive disease.

What happens

so,
If 1-3 weeks after you transferred an angina, inflammation
lungs, tonsillitis or any other infectious disease, you have
Headaches began, the temperature rose, blood pressure jumped
with all relevant symptoms, it is possible that you have a sharp
Glomerulonephritis. In this case, due to the breakdown of the kidney filtering system
Liquid is not excreted from the body in normal mode, which leads
to edema, and, accordingly, it may cause cardiac asthma
and edema of the lungs. Often with acute glomerulonephritis decreases
urination, and urine itself takes color «Meat pets», T.E.
Macro Hematura manifests itself. Pains in the abdomen and lower back,
And even bouts of vomiting. Much less expressed symptoms in chronic
glomerulonephritis that can be stretching for years, but the result
In the absence of treatment, always sad — Acute heart or renal failure.

Diagnosis Glomerulonephritis

At the first signs of the disease, you need to consult a doctor-urologist.
To accurately determine the disease, it is necessary to pass blood tests
and urine, but the decisive method of diagnosing glomerulonephritis is the biopsy of the kidneys.

Prevention Glomerulonephritis