Is It Serious When Patient With Kidney Disease Has Foams In His Urine
Patients with kidney disease often have foams in their urine, and is it a serious symptom?
In fact, it is normal to see foams in our urine surface, but for patient with kidney disease, the foams in his urine surface usually have small size, and they can stay for a long time.
Is it serious for patient with kidney disease to have foams in his urine?
Many factors can cause patient to have foams in his urine, and most of them are not serious. For example, if patient has taken lots of high protein foods in his diet, he may have foamy urine, and if there is any excess organic or inorganic substance filtered out through patient’s urine, patient will also have foams in his urine easily.
But for patient with kidney disease, his foamy urine is very likely to be caused by his kidney damage, which will be a serious condition.
Why is it serious when foamy urine is caused by kidney damage?
There is filtration membrane in our glomeruli, which can filter the wastes out from our blood and keep the nutrients in our body. But when patient’s kidney disease destroy his kidney structure, the permeability of filtration membrane may be increased, and that can cause the protein in patient’s blood leaking out through patient’s urine, which will cause foams in patient’s urine.
If proteinuria caused by kidney damage has not been well controlled, it can aggravate the damage in patient’s kidney obviously. Thereby, if patient’s foams in urine is caused by kidney damage, it will be a serious condition.
In the end, if you have any other problem in dealing with kidney disease, you can contact our online experts, and we are glad to help you.
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