2015年8月1日星期六

Can Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) be Pregnant

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common disease around the globe. As to the young female patients with mild illness or stable condition after treatment, there may have a desire to conceive babies. So, can they be pregnant? In the following, this article will give suggestions to patients with several kinds of CKD who are eager to be with children.
For the Patients with Primary acute nephritis who have been cured in clinic, generally, pregnancy won’t arouse danger. However, the patients had better do it after 3 years when the clinical symptoms have totally disappeared, and this will be safer.Hot Compress Therapy for Kidney Disease Herbal Medicine and Kidney Disease Medicated Bath and Kidney Disease
Patients with Nephrotic Snydrome without complication of hypertension can be pregnant after renal functions get normal. And during the pregnancy, the patients may be also found the increase of proteinuria(Proteinuria and Kidney Disease), but the kidney disease won’t deteriorate in most cases. However, if the patients present with obvious decline of albumin blood, it may cause the underweight or preterm birth of the fetus. Besides, patients with Nephrotic Snydrome should be alert to the formation of thrombus during the pregnancy, for it may arouse lesions of other parts of the body.Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) Stage 4
Patients with glomerular nephritis are vulnerable to have pregnancy hypertension to be pregnant when suffering from hypertension or mild azotemia. What’s worse, this usually causing embryonic death. Therefore, careful consideration is necessary for the patients with Glomerular Nephritis before determining to have a baby. And, once pregnancy hypertension occurs in early period of pregnancy, the patients should abandon this pregnancy immediately. Even if continuing pregnancy, the embryo is hard to survive, and it is quite likely to aggravate the patients’ disease condition.Why Do Nephrotic Syndrome Patients Have Swollen Feet
Patients with other kidney disease, such as IgA Nephropathy, Diabetic Nephropathy, Lupus Nephritis, should pay high attention to prevent the occurrence of pregnancy hypertension during the course of pregnancy, and having regular tests in hospital is very necessary. Therefore, admission of the doctors before conceiving babies and close medical monitoring during pregnancy are absolutely essential.
In conclusion, patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) should carefully weighed before determining to have babies, and if present with the following conditions, pregnancy is never acceptable:
① High Blood Pressure(High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease): It will arouse some complications during pregnancy, such as heart failure.
② For patients with moderate damage of kidney, and the creatinine is 123-265μmol/L, pregancy will aggravate the kidney disease and decline of renal functions.

③ For patients with severe kidney disease, creatinine >265μmol/L and blood urea nitrogen >11mmol/L, pregnancy may threaten their lives.

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