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.

The Pathogeny of Urine Protein

Physiological Proteinuria can commonly be seen after high protein diet intake, psychokinesia, strenuous exercises, chilling for a long time, pregnancy etc will cause temporal Proteinuria, with which the Urine Protein Qualitative is less than +.


In general, continuous Proteinuria often represents kidney disease. The amount of Urine Protein reflects the degree of lesion, and people can observe according to its efficacy clinically. However, in particular, to the end stage of glomerular abnormalities, because large amount of damaged nephrons, the leaching of protein reduces, which is not mean to lighten kidney disease.


Proteinuria caused by the reasons besides kidney disease


Most of Proteinuria caused by the reasons besides kidney disease is benign; Proteinuria may vanish after other diseases are cured.


Hot Proteinuria


When patients with the fever caused by cold reaching up above 38℃, Proteinuria will occur.


Stand Proteinuria.


The occurrence of Proteinuria caused by forward flexion of spine oppressing the vessels of kidney of young people, which may disappear around 30 years old of the people without treatment.


Cyanotic kidney


People with renal venous stasis, such as heart failure will appear Urine Protein. However, it will vanish after disappearing of blood stasis.


Proteinuria caused by kidney diseases


It is obvious that people with kidney disease always appear urine protein after urine routine.


Nephritis


It can be divided into Acute Nephritis and Chronic Nephritis.


Nephrotic Syndrome


The protein from urine will decrease the density of protein. In addition, it is also caused by other conditions, such as Diabetic Nephropathy, Amyloidosis, collagen disease etc.


Nephrosclerosis


Nephrosclerosis caused by Essential Hypertension has less urine volume, which is mostly less than 300mg.


In addition, Multiple Myeloma, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis, Gout, Edema as well as Mercurialism and lead poisoning will cause Urine Protein.