The signs and Symptoms of Children with Chronic Kidney Disease

When Children are attacked by Chronic Kidney Disease, they are too young to express their true feelings about the disease, so parents should pay more attention to their physical changes and have a carefully treatment for their disease. This article would have a analysis about the signs and symptoms of Children with Chronic Kidney Disease, which need your attention.

1. Generally speaking, Nephritis in children develops at slowly speed. The children usually feel fatigue, listlessness, poor appetite. The onset age of Nephritis among children is younger than that of simple kidney disease. Nephritis usually occurs among the children older than 7 and it can affect more boys than girls with the proportion 4:1.

2. Swelling is an early symptom of Nephritis in children. It firstly appears around eyelids and then spread the whole body. In severe cases, the children may have ascetic, hydrothorax, scrotal edema etc which can cause vomiting, diarrhea and dyspnea. The swelling may appear frequently and occasional disappear automatically. In most cases, the swelling in Nephritis is mild so it is hard to notice it.

3. Hypoproteinemia in caused by Childhood Nephritis can cause malnutrition and slow development and growth. If the protein level in blood is low, it is very likely for the children to have infection.

4. When the swelling is serious, the urine output decreases obviously and the children even experience anuria. With 1~2 weeks, the urine output increases gradually along with eliminating of swelling.

5. Usually, the children have acute amygdalitis or skin pustules or other infections 1~4 weeks ago before the onset of the disease. At beginning, the children have low fever, headache, nausea, vomiting etc.

6. The children mostly do not have gross hematuria, but it may occur in some cases, in which, the urine becomes dark tea-colored.


Knowing these signs and symptoms can benefit to the prevention and timely treatment for the children with Chronic Kidney Disease. And if you want to know more or ask for treatment suggestions, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.