The characteristic features of Purpura Nephritis are bellyache, joint pain, purpura, abnormal urine examination. This disease often occurs among children but can does among any age group. In first one-three weeks, more than half of patients suffer from infection of the upper respiratory tract like cold, cough, and so on. Almost all patients have spotted purpura in buttocks and legs usually; about two thirds patients have severe bellyache and black shit caused by intestinal hemorrhage; one third patients bear serious arthralgia especially in knee and ankles, with spotted edema possible. About 20%-60% patients have glomerular lesion. Glomerular lesion often appears in 8 weeks of the beginning of Purpura. At that moment, the symptom is just hematuria, accompanied with proteinuia. Those patients with severe disease may show acute nephritic syndrome, acute nephritic syndrome, and part of patients bear chronic glomerular nephritic syndrome. Mostly all patients have hematuria. If there is gross hematuria, it shows sevious disesease. Half patients have high IGA in serum in acute period.
For patients with Anaphylactoid Purpura Nephritis, the first thing they should do is to see doctors timely and supply with possible allergens for instance which medicines they take before attack, whether they had cough, which places they went，and so on. During the treatment, patients should guard against and control infection.
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Besides the above, prognosis of Anaphylactoid Purpura Nephritis should be according to specific disease condition:
1. Patients only Gross Hematuria. These patients are easy to recover well.
2. Patients with obvious protein and red cells in urine. 10%-20% patients suffer from renal failure.
3. Patients with nephrotic syndrome have bad prognosis. More than half patients have hypertension or Azotemia after 10 years.
4. Patients with acute nephritic syndrome may die from Uremia.
In general, adult patients have worse prognosis than child patients. Renal biopsy is significant to the forecast of progonosis. If you have any other detailed questions, you can consult our online experts or send e-mail to me.
