Post Date December, 02 2023
In daily life, people should pay active attention to the clinical symptoms that chronic nephritis usually presents, which is crucial for effective early treatment. Chronic nephritis patients usually have some common symptom characteristics, which is an important basis for us to diagnose the condition. So what are these common clinical symptoms?
(1) Edema:
Usually, patients with chronic nephritis exhibit symptoms of edema at any stage of onset, but the location and extent of edema are different. The degree of edema can be mild to severe, with mild cases only noticing swelling around the eyes and face in the morning after waking up, or edema in the ankles of both lower limbs in the afternoon. Severe patients may experience systemic edema. However, there are also very few patients who do not experience edema throughout the entire course of the disease and are often overlooked.
(2) Hypertension:
Many patients with chronic nephritis think they have high blood pressure when they go to see a doctor. The doctor requires them to test their urine before they know that the increase in blood pressure caused by chronic nephritis is. For patients with chronic nephritis, the occurrence of hypertension is a gradual process, and the increase in blood pressure can be persistent or intermittent. The degree of hypertension is also characterized by an increase in diastolic blood pressure (above 12.7kPa), and there are significant individual differences. The mild cases are only 18.7-21.3/12.7-13.3kPa, and the severe cases can even exceed 26.7/14.7kPa.
In general, the severity of edema and hypertension symptoms is directly proportional to the progression of chronic nephritis, but this is not absolute. Even so, patients with chronic nephritis still need to pay attention to diagnosing their condition through edema and hypertension, in order to achieve better therapeutic effects.
