How to find diabetic nephropathy in time

Diabetic nephropathy is one of the microvascular complications of diabetic patients, and its incidence is slow. Because patients do not have any symptoms in the early stage, when they go to the hospital for examination, they often develop protein in the urine or serum creatinine has increased. Therefore, diabetic nephropathy should be discovered in time, and early diabetic nephropathy can only be detected early through regular monitoring. Currently, a more authoritative method for screening early diabetic nephropathy is to detect 24-hour urinary microalbumin quantification.

24-hour urine microalbumin quantitative standard for patients with diabetic nephropathy

Normal people's 24-hour urinary microalbumin quantitation is less than 30 mg. If the diabetic patient has a 24-hour urinary microalbumin quantification of 30 mg to 300 mg for 2 consecutive months, the urinary microalbumin should be detected in time. The reason is that if the patient is caused by other causes, it belongs to early diabetic nephropathy.

If the 24-hour urinary microalbumin is more than 300 mg, then enter the clinical diabetic nephropathy, where urine can show protein.

Method of taking 24-hour urine specimens

The method of taking 24-hour urine specimens is to urinate at 7:00 on the first day, and then urinate again at 7:00 the next morning to collect all the urine during the first day, and the urine at 7:00 on the first day is not recorded. The urine at 7 o'clock the next morning must be recorded. After mixing, take the total amount of urine and record it, then take a small cup of urine and send it to the hospital for testing.