Beware of small cold will cause nephropathy

Core Tip: Almost everyone has had the experience of colds generally take some medicine, drinking water, adequate rest, good. In many people, the flu is a very humble little sick, but do not put it together and linked to kidney disease. Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Department of Nephrology and group director of Zou remind the reader, a little cold on the body may also be the most important organs of excretion and metabolism of kidney damage, free medication when cold can also cause kidney damage. Therefore, fatigue or oliguria, edema occurs after a cold, be vigilant, seek immediate medical attention.
Almost everyone has had the experience of colds generally take some medicine, drinking water, adequate rest, good. In many people, the flu is a very humble little sick, but do not put it together and linked to kidney disease. Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Department of Nephrology and group director of Zou remind the reader, a little cold on the body may also be the most important organs of excretion and metabolism of kidney damage, free medication when cold can also cause kidney damage. Therefore, fatigue or oliguria, edema occurs after a cold, be vigilant, seek immediate medical attention.
After a cold oliguria, edema to be alert nephritis
Why flu can cause nephritis? Experts explained that the cold itself does not cause nephritis, but the body's response to cold leads nephritis. Occurs when some cold, virus or bacteria invade the body, the body recognizes these foreign objects, mobilizing defense system (immune system) to produce antibodies, when the antibody binds to the antigen to form immune complexes, although in this case could destroy foreign antigens (bacteria or virus), but also the formation of immune complexes run with the blood circulation to the kidneys, renal tissue deposited, causing infiltration of inflammatory cells, inducing an inflammatory response, causing nephritis.
Then, after a cold should pay attention to what we can prevent the onset of nephritis? Zou and group pointed out that the role of the immune system caused by this type of nephritis is no way to predict, as a patient can do is to have this awareness, early self-discovery. Acute nephritis mostly in sore throat or upper airway 1-2 weeks of onset, after the onset of manifestations of infection are: varying severity of loss of appetite, fatigue, weakness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and poor non-specific symptoms; reduce the amount of urine, dark in color The turbidity, followed by gross hematuria, but does not last long, a few days later and more into microscopic hematuria (ie invisible haematuria); vast majority of nephritis patients with proteinuria, usually after two to three weeks the disease proteinuria can be converted to small or micro, multi 2 to 3 months after the will disappear, and the emergence of persistent proteinuria changes suggestive of chronic nephritis possible; face, eyelids, lower extremity edema.
If these symptoms appear after a cold should seek immediate medical attention. In particular interstitial nephritis, as mentioned earlier Xiaoqiang, hematuria and proteinuria often not obvious, is not likely to be promptly diagnosed.
Abuse of cold medicine can cause kidney damage
In addition, taking a cold cold medicine improperly, it may cause kidney damage. Zou and group presentation, clinically often encountered because of the abuse of cold medicine and cause acute kidney damage and even kidney failure cases, he reminded the patients in the cold medication must be very careful not to own just to the pharmacy to buy medicine or cold medicine is considered Non-prescription drugs can eat casually, or for the sake of better quickly, eat some cold medicine.
Why is there so little cold medicine much power? Zou and group explained that the kidneys are very sensitive to the drug. This is because the kidneys are the body's "purification center", whose main function is to rid the body of metabolic products and toxins, regulate the body's salt and water and acid-base balance, to maintain a stable internal environment. But "three-drug", after people take medicine, drugs through the blood circulation to the body, eventually coming mostly excreted into the body through the kidneys. We are more familiar with daily medications, such as aspirin, pain tablets, paracetamol and gentamicin, kanamycin, rifampicin and so have different degrees of renal toxicity may cause acute kidney damage. Cold medicine especially with two or more similar ingredients while taking the equivalent of increasing the dose, the risk of adverse reactions will increase exponentially.
Suspected kidney disease is not enough only to check urine
Some little medical knowledge who find themselves swelling, fatigue phenomenon when, worried about whether kidney problems, so they went to their own simple outpatient hospital, opened urine tests alone, when you see the test results are normal worry. In fact, urine routine examination alone is not able to be assured that Zou and group suggested that, Xiaoqiang mentioned above, have edema, and urine routine examination is still normal, urine protein and urine sediment by detecting only to find the problem.

Zou and group presentation, urine test results most of the chronic kidney disease patients are normal, indicating only with routine urine examination to determine whether people with kidney disease easily lead to misdiagnosis. He suggested that the qualified people, in the annual examination, in addition to urine, the urine protein detection and increase the urinary sediment, after two inspection costs add only 50 yuan, but helps to detect early kidney disease