What Symptoms May Appear In Stage 3 Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetes is the most common reason that can cause patient to have kidney disease, which is known as diabetic nephropathy. And diabetic nephropathy is the second reason that can cause patient to have end stage kidney failure.
Stage 3 diabetic nephropathy is a moderate stage, and kidney damage can cause many health problem, so it is normal for patients to have some obvious symptoms.
Proteinuria is the symptom that will appear in patient’s body firstly, and patient’s proteinuria will be discontinuous and slight at the beginning, but it will become severe and continuous gradually.
Patient with diabetic nephropathy may also have obvious hematuria, which can cause patient to have red urine color. But in most cases, it is more likely to be microscopic hematuria.
Fatigue:
Patient with diabetic nephropathy will also feel fatigue easily, which is caused by anemia. Because it is caused by the shortage of hemopoietin, so it is useless to treat this problem by supply nutrients, like chalybeate.
Foamy urine:
For patients withs stage 3 diabetic nephropathy, it is very common for them to have foams in their urine. A common reason that can cause foamy urine is proteinuria, and diabetic patients will have much glucose in their urine, and that is also a major reason that leads to foamy urine.
Edema:
Patient’s proteinuria can decrease the osmotic pressure of patient’s blood vessel, and that can cause the fluid in patient’s blood to flow into tissue space, which can cause patient to have obvious edema.
Hypertension:
Hypertension often appears later in diabetic nephropathy, but it may also appear in stage 3. Hypertension is dangerous for patient with kidney disease, because it can aggravate patient’s kidney damage greatly.
Besides, as patient’s kidney function is damaged moderately, patient with stage 3 diabetic nephropathy may also have symptoms like muscle cramps, itching, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. But as we know, different patient will have his own symptoms.
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