Common Symptoms of Diabetic Nephropathy

As the diabetic nephropathy is one of the common complications of diabetes, so which are the common symptoms of diabetic nephropathy?

Proteinuria
In the early stage, there are only little mircoalbumin in the urine, this symptom can be last for several years. With the disease worse, the patients begin to have persistent albumin, the glomerular filtration capacity gradually decreases, and the kidney damage will be much worse.

Edema and Nephrotic Syndrome
If the 24 hours urinary protein quantitative is more than 3 gram, the edema will appear. And if the body has obviously whole body edema, then the nephritic syndrome is continues to worse.

High Blood Pressure
The high blood pressure is one of the common symptoms in the nephritic syndrome patients, and this is also the end stage symptoms. Most of the patients with long time persistent albumin will be more easily to have high blood pressure.

Failure of Kidney Function
Once there is kidney damage in the diabetic patients, this disease processes is progressive, and eventually developed into azotemia or uremia.

Anemia
The nephritic syndrome patients with obviously azotemia, may have the mild to moderate anemia symptoms, and the Iron therapy have no use.

Other Symptoms
With the disease worse, the patients may have retinopathy. Although it is not caused by the nephritic syndrome, the retinopathy always accompany with this disease

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