1. Edema
It usually appears from eyelid and face, and then develops to the lower parts of the body. When the disease is serious, patients may get edema in the whole body and someone may have ascites. Of course, patients with many other kinds of disease may also get edema. A relative simple method to distinguish them is to see whether the edema appears in eyelid and face or not. If it happens, most of the conditions belong to kidney edema.
2. Blood in urine or hematuria
the most significant symptom of Chronic Nephritis is hematuria. Because parts of diseases like IgA Chronic Nephritis may appear hematuria in the early stage. There are two types of hematuria: gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria. The second one cannot be seen with the naked eyes and it can only be seen with microscope. If patients have hematuria, it shows that there are more erythrocytes in urine. Of course, hematuria cannot be the standard of Chronic Nephritis. In addition, female should confirm that whether the hematuria is caused by menses or not.
3. Back pain
Chronic Nephritis patients always can feel backache. We can also say that they can feel it after diagnosing the Chronic Nephritis. Patients may consider that there is something wrong with their waist, so they get backache. However, this kind of backache is different from that of the Renal Pelvis Chronic Nephritis and Renal Stone. The backache of Renal Pelvis Chronic Nephritis always happens at one side while that of the Renal Stone is severe and in inner thigh.
The symptoms of Chronic Nephritis can be summarized as the above information. Once patients recognize the above symptom, they should take a test in the local hospital and take a timely treatment once diagnosed as kidney disease.
