Symptoms of pyelonephritis in children

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My brother's baby front-end case, you because of high fever and hospitalization for examination and treatment, the result is pyelonephritis, we are very nervous, the child is still small, only afraid of pyelonephritis will affect later life and development, so what are the symptoms of pediatric pyelonephritis? Let me tell you something.

Symptoms of pyelonephritis in children

First, children with acute nephritis in preschool children, especially children over 3 years old. Generally in the cold, skin infection after a week prone to nephritis in children. Because its various manifestations are not painful or itchy, if parents do not carefully observe the changes of their children, they may delay the illness. Generally speaking, acute nephritis often has acute tonsillitis, skin pustulosis and other infections 1-4 weeks before the onset. At the beginning may have low fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and other symptoms, these symptoms and general fever infection is no different, not easy to cause people's attention, often ignored. Edema and oliguria are the characteristics of this disease. Generally, edema starts from the eyelids of children and gradually extends to the whole body. Therefore, when the child has upper eyelid edema, we should find out the reason, to see if it is because of drinking too much water or poor rest, or because of nephritis.

Second *, hypertension: 30-80% children can be manifested as hypertension, mainly due to water and sodium retention, blood volume expansion. Generally mild to moderate increase, most in 1-2 weeks with the increase of urine volume and return to normal. Edema: some children pyelonephritis initial performance for the morning eyelid edema, later developed to the lower limbs or throughout the body. The edema was non depressed. The edema was accompanied by decreased urine volume.

Third, the symptoms of children's pyelonephritis can be manifested as hematuria: 50-70% of children with nephritis have gross hematuria, showing ashy water or tan (acidic urine), can also be shown as meat washing water (neutral or weak alkaline urine), 1-2 weeks later turned to microscopic hematuria. Microscopic hematuria lasted for 1-3 months, and a few lasted for half a year or more. It can be accompanied with proteinuria of different degrees. Generally, the urinary protein is less than 3G / D, and 20% of cases can reach the level of nephropathy. In addition, due to the long-term loss of a large amount of protein from the urine, the symptoms of pyelonephritis can appear protein malnutrition performance, dry hair, hair follicle keratosis, dry skin, finger (toe) nail white stripes, growth retardation, anemia and easy infection. Some children with pyelonephritis have hematuria and hypertension.

matters needing attention

When children appear after pyelonephritis, it is best not to let in life should not be tired. Special attention should be paid to the arrangement of children's work and rest time, full rest; children should not eat salt food. This is very important for children whose blood pressure has not yet dropped to normal. Low salt diet should be used. After the edema and hypertension disappear, you can change to a normal diet, but it should also be light, not too salty. Steamed bread and soda biscuits also contain sodium, it is best not to give children to eat. Can let the child eat some fresh vegetables and fruits to supplement the body vitamins.