Is Blood In Urine Always A Bad Sign For Patient With Lupus Nephritis
Blood in urine is also called hematuria, and this symptom often appears in patient with lupus nephritis. As we can imagine, it is scaring that the excreted urine presents the color of blood.
Is blood in urine always a bad sign?
In fact, many factors can cause patient with lupus nephritis to have blood in his urine.
For example, when people take strenuous exercise, that may lead to blood leaking out through urine. If patient have infection in his ureter or bladder can also cause patient to have blood urine. Besides, the damage in kidney or ureter by kidney stone is also a major cause of blood urine. What’s more, the use of some medicines can also cause patient to have blood in urine.
In fact, if patient’s blood urine is caused by these reasons, that will not be very dangerous, because after right treatment and caring, patient’s condition can recover soon.
Why patients with lupus nephritis often have blood in their urine?
Even though the reasons above can also cause patients with lupus nephritis to have hematuria, but the major cause of hematuria in them is different, and it is the damage in patient’s kidney structure.
There is filtration membrane in glomeruli, which completes the work of keeping the nutrients in blood and filtrating the wastes out of body. For patients with lupus nephritis, the immune complexes may build up in the glomerular mesangial area, and that can increase its permeability, so the macromolecular substances in blood will be able to leak out through patient’s urine, among which the red cell in blood may also leak out in this process, and that can cause patient to have blood in his urine.
While patient’s hematuria is caused by this reason, that will be dangerous, and patient needs to accept treatment and nursing care as soon as possible. And if you have this problem or other trouble caused by lupus nephritis, you can contact us, and we will do what we can to help you.
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