Many Nephritis(Glomerulonephritis) patients worry that the disease will
affect their children and whether Nephritis is a hereditary disease. Now we will
give a brief introduction about this topic.
Nephritis is a group of chronic diseases with various causes and different
pathological types. In Nephritis, both kidneys will present diffuse or focal
inflammatory changes and the disease has hidden clinical onset, lengthy course
and slow development.
For Nephritis patients, protein and occult blood always occur in urine,
because renal filtration function is damaged, protein and occult blood can not
leak out through filtration membrane, which make the kidney stay in a high
filtration state. If this state lasts for a long period of time, mesangial
proliferation will continue which can lead to further damage and renal ischemia
and anoxia. At this time, patients should take timely and effective measures to
ease the disease, or the pathological impairment will aggravate and cause renal
fibrosis, damaged nephrons and progressively declined renal functions.
That whether Nephritis is hereditary or not depends on which kind it belongs
to.Some kinds of Nephritis have heritability, especially hereditary Nephritis
which can pass from parents to children and belongs to autosomal dominant
hereditary disease. The causes of hereditary Nephritis remain unknown up to now,
and generally it is believed that the disease is caused by the hereditary defect
of basilar membrane. The hereditary Nephritis is characterized by familial
heredity, and among the family members of several generations, many people may
show hematuria which is the most common manifestation of hereditary Nephritis
and occurs more commonly in young men than in women.
Experts point out that patients should pay much attention to daily diet and
health care. For those patients who have no obvious edema and high blood
pressure, there is no need to limit the intake of water and sodium salt. For
those patients with slight and moderate azotemia, especially for those who lose
massive protein every day, they shouldn’t control the intake of protein in order
to maintain positive nitrogen balance. For those patients with massive
proteinuria and mild azotemia, they should supplement more vegetable protein.
And in serious cases, patients should limit the intake of protein.