Types of Nephritis

Anemia, the early and common symptom of IgA Nephropathy, bring patients the weak body and poor spirits. The severe pains suffering from anemia urges patients to know the cause and treatment. The cause of anemia in IgA Nephropathy: 1. one of the kidney functions is producing EPO which is the necessary elements for the formation of red blood cells.

Ureters are two tubes that transport urine from each kidney to the bladder. Glomerulonephritis. This type of acute nephritis produces inflammation in the glomeruli. There are millions of capillaries within each kidney. Glomeruli are the tiny clusters of capillaries that transport blood and behave as filtering units.

Sometimes called nephritis, GN is a serious illness that can be life-threatening and requires immediate treatment. GN can be both acute, or sudden, and chronic, or long-term. This condition used to be known as Bright's disease.

There are several types of acute nephritis: Interstitial nephritis. In interstitial nephritis, the spaces between the kidney tubules become inflamed. This inflammation causes the kidneys to swell. Pyelonephritis. Pyelonephritis is an inflammation of the kidney, usually due to a bacterial infection.

Low libido describes a decreased interest in sexual activity. It’s common to lose interest in sex from time to time, and libido levels vary through life. It’s also normal for your interest not to match your partners at times. However, low libido for a long period of time may cause concern for some people.

“A patient can be doing well, their kidney problems resolved, etc., but still they have profound fatigue, and we don’t understand why.” Lupus is a chronic, inflammatory disease that causes your body’s immune system to attack healthy tissues and organs, and can damage your skin, joints, and other parts of your body.

How does lupus cause fluid retention? Lupus, or SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) is an autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation on kidneys. When kidneys are damaged, it is called “Lupus Nephritis”. Therefore, extra fluid cannot be removed by kidneys adequately, leading to fluid-retention.

Lupus nephritis is a kind of immune disorder kidney disease, and patients may suffer from some serious symptoms such as protein urine, high blood pressure, swelling, fatigue, kidney dysfunction and loss of appetite. These symptoms will affect the life quality of patients. Why patients with 35% kidney function have the symptom of loss of appetite? There are two common reasons that can cause people loss of appetite.

Twitching eyelid muscles are common. Parkinson's disease can involve twitching and grimacing, though many other symptoms predominate. Similarly, in Huntington's chorea, the focus is not only on the display of characteristic involuntary muscle movements, but on the psychological states of apathy, irritability and mania that are experienced with this illness.

Low potassium in your blood is another cause of interstitial nephritis. Potassium helps regulate many functions in the body, including heartbeat and metabolism. Taking medications for long periods of time may damage the tissues of the kidneys and lead to interstitial nephritis.

Lupus nephritis is inflammation of the kidney that is caused by systemic lupus erythematous (SLE). Also called lupus, SLE is an autoimmune disease. With lupus, the body's immune system targets its own body tissues. Lupus nephritis happens when lupus involves the kidneys. Up to 60% of lupus patients will develop lupus nephritis.

A person with stage 2 chronic kidney disease (CKD) has kidney damage with a mild decrease in their glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 60-89 ml/min. There are usually no symptoms to indicate the kidneys are damaged.

While CKD 3 is further classified into 3A and 3B for better diagnostic processes, and CKD 3A means mild-moderate decrease in GFR between 45-59 mL/min/1.73m2, whereas CKD 3B carries a GFR of 30-44 mL/min/1.73m2.

For patients with stage 3 CKD, their GFR range is 30~59ml/min, which means more than half normal kidney function is damaged at this point. Stage 3 CKD is a significant stage, becasue CKD is known as a silent disease, and many patients begin to find they have CKD when they are in kidney disease stage 3.

Chronic kidney disease is divided into five stages according to GFR, and the GFR range of stage 4 CKD is 15~30ml/min. Healthy people’s GFR can reach 120ml/min, so the GFR range of stage 4 lupus nephritis is very low.

And GFR of stage 5 is less than 14%. Healthy people’s GFR can reach 90% to 125%, so the GFR range of stage 5 lupus nephritis is too low. It is advanced-stage lupus nephritis and more than 90% global glomerulosclerosis. In such condition, lupus nephritis patients is possible to develop into Kidney Failure or uremia.

Problem in elimination of potassium through urine gives rise to high blood potassium levels. Kidney disease or kidney dysfunction is one of the main causes of high potassium in blood. Chronic renal failure, lupus nephritis, transplant rejections or any change in the dialysis treatment for kidney patients can lead to hyperkalemia.

Why patient with lupus nephritis has nausea and vomiting? Nausea and vomiting in patient with lupus nephritis can be caused by many reasons. A major cause is the accumulation of toxins and metabolic wastes in patient’s blood, especially the accumulation of urea nitrogen.