What Does Protein in Urine Mean for Diabetics

If you are a diabetic and told there are protein in your urine, I am afraid you are suffering from kidney problem. Kidney problem caused by Diabetes is called Diabetic Nephropathy in clinical and proteinuria is the only and typical symptom of it in early stage.

Protein is one of the three main types of chemical that make up our body (the others are fats and sugars). Protein is an important part of diet, and is contained in most types of food. Meat and fish contain large amounts of protein. After you eat protein, it is dissolved in the stomach and absorbed into the body. The protein is then modified and distributed throughout the body in the blood. Protein is an important part of the plasma (watery part) of the blood, and the body does not want to lose protein. Therefore, when the body eliminates waste through the kidneys, protein should be kept in the blood stream.
The kidneys make urine by filtering the blood. Normally no protein passes into the urine when the blood is filtered, because protein in the blood is too large to pass through the tiny holes in the kidney filters. However, the filter can be damaged in long-term high blood sugar, so that protein can pass into the urine. Thereby, proteinuria always means kidney damages for people with Diabetes.
Diabetic Nephropathy is one of the fatal complications of Diabetes and if left uncontrolled, it will progressive to kidney failure and therefore push diabetics into dialysis or kidney transplant. Therefore, for diabetics, once proteinuria occurs, diabetics need to repair damaged kidney filters as quickly as possible, so as to stop proteinuria fundamentally. Also to avoid worsening damaged kidney filters, diabetics with proteinuria also need to limit protein intake in our daily life, and this will be helpful for the quick recovery of kidney damages.