What is the Harm of Diabetic Nephropathy?

Diabetic Nephropathy refers to long-time Diabetes resulting in kidney damage. The main symptoms are protienuria (protein in the urine) and high blood pressure. So, what is the harm of Diabetic Nephropathy? Experts in Beijing Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital told us that the harms of Diabetic Nephropathy include:
1. patients’mental stress and agony. For people with and without kidney disease, there physical condition and life quality are different, as well as threat and mental stress.
2. Resulting in death. Although Diabetic Nephropathy is not like heart disease that easily leads to sudden death, it is a primary cause for patients with Diabetes to result in death. In clinic practice, the main death population of Diabetic Nephropathy is Type ⅠDiabetes. Because, patients with Type ⅠDiabetes are occurring at the early age, the progression is rapid, and the kidney function is poor, finally all patients will appear damage in heart, cerebrovascular, and kidneys. In addition, kidney disease will lead to disability. For example, patients with dialysis will have a different life from the healthy people
3. Resulting in huge economic waste. For example, if patients need dialysis, they must require dialysis twice a week at least, which will bring a large economic burden. Also, the work and manual labor will be affected, which is also a waste.
So, we should try to avoid having Diabetic Nephropathy. We can’t make all people avoid Diabetes, But we can try our best minimize the number of Diabetic Nephropathy. Even people have had Diabetic Nephropathy, we should try to slow down its progression to Uremia and avoid dying early.

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What are the Symptoms of Amyloid Nephropathy

If the disease can not be treated well, Amyloid Nephropathy can aggravate into Kidney Failure at last. Hence, it is better for patents know the symptoms well.

1. Protein urine.

2. Swelling (edema) of the eyelids, the lower limbs and the whole body

3. Big tongue (amyloid macroglossia)

4. High blood pressure.

5. Hypoalbuminemia and hyperlipidaemia

6. Blood urine.

7. Pain in the abdomen, loin and back pain

8. Fatigue and some patients may have nausea.

What are Causes of Amyloid Nephropathy?

What are Causes of Amyloid Nephropathy?
1. Complications.

Neoplastic disease, infectious disease and immunological disease are the main cause of Amyloid Nephropathy. About three quaters secondary amyloidosis may progress to Amyloid Nephropathy and the others are Amyloid Nephropathy.

2. Immune system.

In the condition of immune dysfunction, proteins are not able to be resolved as normal but collect in the tissues, forming amyloid fiber which is regarded as foreign invaders. Then inflammation will occur and kidney cells will be damaged, after some time, patients may have symptoms.

What is Amyloid Nephropathy?
Amyloid Nephropathy is characterized by numerous amyloid fibers depositing on the renal tissues. primary disease-amyloidosis. The amyloid fiber is a glass-like thing and includes amyloid protein, amyloid protein A, prealbumin, etc. amyloid fiber can be are the main cells that can be produced and decomposed by Macrophages.