Occult Blood in Childhood Has Many Potential Hazards, so it Can’t be Ignored
Yangyang, seven-year old, is a happy and lovely girl. Not long ago, she got mild fever,because she was having too much fun and got wet in the rain. Her mother gave her some antibiotic and cold medicines following doctor’s advice.
Yang was born with weaker condition than other babies and she always gets amygdalitis which is a quite common inducement of other kind of disease for her. However, her amygdalitis this time seems more serious than former ones.
Since she got mild fever, she began to have poor spirit and appetite every day, sometimes even vomiting and headache.
Some days later, her mother found that Yang yang’s eyelids were swelling and edema on her face in the following days was also found. Besides, her urine volume also became much lower. Her mom was not sure whether this was caused by less drink, but Yang did not feel thirsty when her mom asked her. Doctors suggested her take urine test, blood test and renal function test. The results are as follows: erythrocyte: increase, occult blood: +2, serum complement C3: decrease. Through the test results, doctors made the diagnosis of Acute Nephritis. Doctors said that amygdalitis can induce acute nephritis if it can’t be treated timely, then it will turn to chronic nephritis, which increases the possibility of getting uremia. Considering her condition, doctor offered Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy which is the characteristic treatment in our hospital. After a month of treatment, her urine test result turns normal and occult blood disappeared. Now, Yangyang can go to school as usual.
Experts say that many patients with acute nephritis have a time of inflammation repeated infection of respiratory tract and skin (cold, fever, amygdalitis, pharyngitis, scarlatina, erysipelas). In this period, if streptococcus or such infection isn’t treated timely or completely, they will affect kidney and then induce acute nephritis.
Generally, nephritis can be diagnosed by urine test and blood test. If there are symptoms such as : increased urine red blood cells, occult blood:+~+++, urine protein: +~+++, it mostly indicates that nephritis occurs.
Experts explain: the discovery of urine protein and occult blood is because there is severe damage in glomerular basement membrane.
Quite a part of chronic nephritis is from acute nephritis which are not treated timely in early stage.
Chronic nephritis is known to develop into renal insufficiency, uremia or such severe diseases. As for Childhood Acute Nephritis, the prognosis is much better and there is also no suquelaes if it can be treated effectively in time.
Therefore doctors remind that parents should specially pay high attention to whether their children are diagnosed with acute nephritis and seek for treatments timely.
In addition, experts in shijiazhuang kidney disease hospital suggest people develop a habit of taking physical examination termly in order to detect occult blood in time, which is helpful to prevent the further development of the disease.
