How to Tell Whether Your Kid Have Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome

In recent years, children patients with nephropathy have become a high-profile group to the society. We all know that the earlier to recognize a disease, the easier to treat it. So, parents must pay high attention to some abnormal presentations of your kids, for that it may be the forewarning of a serious disease. In the following, this article will list some early presentations of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome to help the parents tell whether their children are in danger of kidney disease.
Firstly, edema (swelling) is a commonly seen presentation of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome. Parents can be aware of it easily, and sometimes it may be accompanied with decreased urine. The edema usually starts from eyelids and face, once pressed, it will get hollowed, and gradually the edema will spread into the whole body. For some severe cases, the kids may have hydrothorax and ascitic which may arouse breathing difficulties, diarrhea or vomiting; and some will be presented with white stripes or purple strips on legs, medial upper arm and skin of abdominal wall. It is deserved to be mentioned that if the kids are suspected to have nephritis, the edema may not as obvious as the presentation as the simple nephropathy is, and some may be too mild to recognize.
Secondly, proteinuria is a character of nephropathy, the same goes for the childhood Nephrotic Syndrome. As the loss of massive protein in a long term, such presentations will come to the kids with nephropathy, like paleness, dry cuticles and hair, white strips on fingernail and toenail. In addition, these children patients may always looked depressed, and have poor appetite and diarrhea. When the loss of protein has reached to a certain degree, these kids will have hypoalbuminemia, leading to malnutrition and stunted growth.

In a conclusion, parents should not take some abnormal presentations of your kids for granted, to ensure your kid enjoy a healthy life, you'd better have your kid tested in hospital regularly. And once your kids are presenting such symptoms above, you need to bring your kid go to hospital immediately in case the disease deteriorates or even threatens life!