Several Causes Of Kidney Disease In Children

Why does a lively and healthy child suffer from kidney disease all of a sudden? Many parents have this doubt. Actually kidney disease can be caused by many factors and the following are six most common reasons of kidney disease in children.

1. Inheritance

Some kidney diseases are closely related to heredity such as Alport Syndrome, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and Diabetic Nephropathy. You can take genetic testing, kidney IV collagen type to make sure if your disease is associated with heredity.

2. Drug abuse

Nowadays drug stores can be seen everywhere so many parents do not want to buy medicines in hospital. Due to lack of necessary medical and pharmacological knowledge, some parents prefer to try some folk prescription and some drugs that they even do not know the name. In this condition, drug abuse will occur. Actually many medicines will be tonic to kidneys to a certain extent. Some children have sudden drop in kidney function because of drug abuse.

3. Daily behavior

A full bladder, no water for long periods and poor hygiene are easy to kidney stone and nephropyelitis.

4. Oneself disease

Kidney disease also has relation with oneself disease like diabetes, hepatitis B, anaphylactoid purpura and systemic lupus erythematosus.

5. Related to your daily diet

If you follow a high sodium diet or you overeat, it will increase your risk of kidney disease.

6. Infection

Common infection like acute glomerulonephritis, IgA Nephropathy and nephropyelitis are all related to kidney disease.

Due to the above factors, they increase the risk of kidney disease. Therefore, in daily life, parents should help your children avoid the above 6 factors and protect your own children from being attacked by kidney disease.