Signs, treatment and prevention of glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis is a bilateral kidney damage that is inflammatory and is supplemented by damage to small vessels located in the kidneys. In the process of development of pathology, there are disturbances in the functioning of the kidneys - the body ceases to excrete toxic substances normally, and urine production is disrupted. The disease can occur in any person, so it is often necessary to prevent glomerulonephritis.

Most often, the disease manifests itself in people up to forty years of age. In addition, glomerulonephritis is almost always diagnosed in the male body or in the child's body. According to the incidence of cases of glomerulonephritis, the disease ranks second after infection with infectious pathologies of the urinary system.

The most common cause of glomerulonephritis is the inadequate response of the human body to the effects of various infections and allergens.

Mechanism of the development of the disease

A large role in the development of glomerulonephritis is assigned to the immune reactions of the body to the effects of certain infections or allergens. Two to three weeks after the human body is infected with an infection, antibodies are produced in the blood that must resist infection. When too many antigens of infection and the same number of antibodies are produced in the human body, together they create a heavy antigen-antibody complex that penetrates the inflammation zone and provokes its further development. This process severely disrupts the kidneys.

Symptoms of the disease

Glomerulonephritis is characterized by the manifestation of three major symptoms - puffiness, increased blood pressure and urinary syndrome.

The acute form of the pathology develops six to twelve days after the defeat of the body by streptococcal infection. In children, the disease proceeds cyclically and differs by a violent onset, but ultimately ends with complete recovery. Adults are more often affected by an erased variant of the disease without concomitant changes in urinalysis, which is gradually transformed into a chronic form.

With a favorable course of glomerulonephritis and timely detection and treatment of the disease, swelling disappears completely after two to three weeks, and the pressure is restored, and full recovery occurs in two to two and a half months.

Treatment of

disease The treatment of acute form of glomerulonephritis and exacerbations in chronic form includes the following stages:

• Regulation of the exercise regime, observance of bed rest with the activation of the disease.
• Compliance with a diet, the main rules of which are the exclusion of foods that can trigger an allergic reaction, the rejection of food with a high salt content, because it is salt that causes strong edema and increased pressure.
• Symptomatic treatment with appropriate medications.
• Active treatment with drugs that affect the work of immunity.

Prevention of the disease

Preventive measures are to prevent pathologies and organize early treatment of infection, eliminate focal infection. In addition, in order to prevent, it is necessary to prevent the development of hypothermia. People suffering from allergic pathologies are prohibited from carrying out preventive vaccinations.

Do not use radical treatment for remission of the chronic form of glomerulonephritis, since the autoimmune process is not exacerbated. Patients are advised to lie more time, avoid hard work, work only in a dry and warm room, refuse salt food. Food should be enriched with microelements and vitamins, necessary for the body. It also requires the sanation of foci of chronic infection.

The treatment results are good in sanatorium-resort conditions.