Symptoms Of Protein In Urine

Patients with kidney disease often have protein in their urine, which is also called proteinuria. In fact, if proteinuria has not been well controlled, it can cause many symptoms and damages.

How is proteinuria defined?

To know the symptoms of proteinuria, it is necessary for patients to understand what proteinuria means.

In normal condition, we can have less amount of protein in our urine, and it is generally less than 150mg. If patients have proteinuria more than this volume, and can be found by routine urine test, it will be called proteinuria. While for patients whose proteinuria amount is more than 3.5g per day, it is called massive proteinuria, and this condition is often seen in patients with nephrotic syndrome.

Symptoms of proteinuria:

For patients with less amount of proteinuria, they may have no obvious symptom caused by proteinuria. While as their condition progresses, their immunity will be damaged gradually, because protein is an important ingredient for immune system, and patients will easy to get infected in this condition.

For patients who have a large amount of proteinuria, they will have obvious symptoms. A common symptom for patients with proteinuria is edema. Protein has the function of keeping the water stay in blood vessel, while protein loss can cause fluid to flow into tissue space, which will lead to edema.

Besides, proteinuria can also cause patients to have foams in their urine. Protein in urine can cause the tension on urine surface to rise, and it will cause foams easily when urine hit the its surface. While when other substances is contained in urine, it can also lead to foamy urine easily, but the foams caused by protein are small and can exist for a long time.

Once patients find they have proteinuria, they should take measures to control this symptom as soon as possible, because proteinuria can damage patients’ nephrons, and aggravate their condition gradually. Besides, if you have any doubt about this aspect, you can also consult our online experts, and we are glad to help you.

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