Know Protein in Urine (Proteinuria) Rightly

Some patients are wondering about his protein in urine (proteinuria), some of them have suffered with this kidney problem for a long time. Since they have no other bad symptoms or discomforts, they do not care about that or do not know much about the severity of this kind of disorder. Here let’s analyze protein in urine (proteinuria)

To put it in simple, kidneys are organs which play the function of secreting, adjusting and filtration. If you have protein or blood in urine, it means that now the function of filtration has been damaged.

Proteinuria includes physiological proteinuria and pathological proteinuria. Physiological proteinuria refers to proteinuria in urine due to some transient factors; it can disappear when one changes position. Functional proteinuria occurs after one has strenuous exercise, fever, or a cold. When his or her temperature goes down to normal level, proteinuria will disappear. Pathological proteinuria refers to proteinuria when kidney disease or kidney damage involved in systemic disease. Therefore, if patient who has protein in urine (proteinuria) and also suffered with high creatinine, there is no doubt that his or her proteinuria is not physiological, because now the kidneys are already been damaged.

Patients with proteinuria may wonder about why they have no other symptoms if kidneys are damaged? Just think about it, protein is the main nutrition people need in their normal life, if lots of them leaked from the urine, on the one hand, we need to intake more protein for supplement, then we need to eat more and the burden of kidneys will be increased, on the other hand, the leakage of protein will also damage the kidneys all the time. So suggest patients could realize the severity of kidney disease and receive effective treatment as soon as possible.

How to Eliminate Protein in Urine for People with Kidney Disease

In normal case, there is only a small amount of protein in urine(less than 150 mg/per day) and the protein qualitative test is negative. However, in Kidney Disease, if the kidneys are damaged, they will not be able to prevent the protein leakage thus resulting in protein in urine.

Important function of protein in body

Proteins are essential nutrients for human body and important components of body tissues as well as keep immune system function normally etc. If the protein level in blood declines the normal, it will cause a series of problems such as weak immunity, frequent infections, malnutrition etc. These problems will certainly speed up the progression of Kidney Disease.

Why patients with Kidney Disease have protein in urine?

The healthy kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and discharging the metabolic products from body. However, in Kidney Disease, the glomeruli (filters) in kidneys are damaged and lose their normal barrier function. As a result, the proteins will pass through the glomerular filtration membrane and leak into urine.

How to eliminate protein in urine for people with Kidney Disease?

1. The patients should limit the protein consumption and avoid eating foods rich in proteins. Meanwhile, they should increase proportion of high quality protein properly like fish, lean meat etc.

2. Usually, the doctors will prescribe some hormone and immunosuppressive agents to suppress the inflammatory reaction. Therefore, it can control the protein in urine temporarily. However, it will relapse very frequently.

3. The above are only assistant methods in eliminating protein in urine. As protein in urine is attributable to the impairment of glomeruli in kidneys, restoring impaired glomeruli is the first step in removing the proteins.