Kidney is in charge of producing urine, while for patients with chronic kidney disease, their kidney function will be damaged gradually by their disease, which can cause them to have many health problems. As a result, many abnormal changes will appear in patient’s urine.
For patients with CKD, it is common for them to have blood urine, which can be very scaring if patients have gross hematuria. Well then, why CKD patients have blood in urine?
Why patients with CKD have blood in urine?
For patients with CKD, hematuria can be caused by many factors, which make it a common symptom.
The most common cause of hematuria is the increase in the permeability of glomerular filtration membrane. Glomerular filtration membrane is in charge of filtrating out the metabolic wastes and keeping the useful substances in body. When it is damaged by patient’s kidney disease, lots of nutrients in body will leak out through patient’s urine. When red cells leak out in this process, hematuria will appear.
Patients with CKD often have complications like kidney stone and infection, and these factors often cause patients to have blood in urine. Besides, for patients with PKD and kidney cyst, when the size of their kidney cysts is too big, kidney cyst rupture often appears, and that can also cause hematuria.
How to deal with hematuria in patients with CKD?
To deal with hematuria, patients should make sure its real causes. If it is caused by the increased permeability of glomerular filtration membrane, patients will need to take medicines like ARB, ACEI and glucocorticoid, etc, which can reduce its permeability and control the inflammation in kidney. If hematuria is caused by infection or the movement of kidney stone, it is necessary for patients to take antibiotic and drink more water and take proper exercise. Besides, if blood in urine is caused by the rupture of kidney cyst, it is important for patients to take measures to prevent infection.
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