Diabetic Nephropathy patients in America account for 1.6 % to 2 % of the
total people. The number of them is 5 million. Patients who are diagnosed with
Diabetic Nephropathy take up 40% of those with Diabetes. Is Diabetic Nephropathy
serious and how to treat Diabetic Nephropathy? Generally, Diabetic Nephropathy
can be divided into five stages and different stages have their specific
treatment measures. And doctors will give specific prescription according to the
different stages. In this passage, we will mainly introduce the five stages of
Diabetic Nephropathy.
The first stage of Diabetic Nephropathy is called ultrafiltration, which
means the filtration is much. The size of the kidney also increases in this
stage due to hard working. The purpose is to discharge the sugar out. The load
from kidney is heavy, kidney becomes bigger. What we should point out is that
there is no symptom in the first stage.
The second stage of Diabetic Nephropathy is called clinical stage. In this
stage, patients can also not be diagnosed with Diabetic Nephropathy easily. Some
have a little high blood pressure and the high blood pressure is not steady. At
this moment, if patients take a renal biopsy or puncture, they can find out that
in kidney, there is damage or lesion. However, urinalysis can not tell the
change and there are also no clinical manifestations in clinic.
In the third stage of Diabetic Nephropathy, there starts to appear some
steady manifestations such as high blood pressure. There is also protein in the
urine. The third stage is a critical stage for patients with Diabetic
Nephropathy. After treatment, the disease can be reversible as long as patients
with Diabetic Nephropathy take effective treatment. In the fourth and fifth
stage, patients’ Diabetic Nephropathy is difficult to get recover with the
damage become more and more.
So it is quiet necessary for patients or normal people to have examinations
on urine. microalbumin is an important index which can identify whether people
have tend to develop into kidney disease.
In the fourth stage of Diabetic Nephropathy, patients will have a large
amount of protein in urine. No matter what measures they take, protein in urine
is hard to diminish. Blood pressure increases continuously. Blood urea nitrogen
and serum creatinine increase as well.(High Creatinine Level)
In the last stage, patients with Diabetic Nephropathy develop into renal
insufficiency stage. Many symptoms come out such as high blood pressure, edema,
increased urine or no urine, pain in the back, and so on. In addition, patients
with Diabetic Nephropathy may also have other symptoms such as anemia, fatigue,
osteoporosis and so on.