Kidney Disease and Bloody Urine

Kidney disease can cause bloody urine, but it is not the only cause. Bloody urine means there are excessive red blood cells in urine and in kidney disease, it can be caused by damaged glomerular filtration membrane or injured renal tubule. Now, let’s have a look about how kidney disease cause bloody urine and how to deal with bloody urine effectively,

How does kidney disease cause bloody urine?

In clinical, there are two types of blood urine and they are gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria which needs to be diagnosed with microscope. For gross hematuria, we can see the urine color changes with naked eyes. Usually, gross hematuria presents as tea-colored, dark orange or red. Bloody urine is the presentation of excessive red blood cells in the urine and usually, the more red blood cells in urine, the redder the urine color.

We each human bing have two kidneys which sever as the filter in our body. Kidneys filter blood and meanwhile separate wastes and nutritions. For these wastes, they are discharged and get out of our body with urine and for these nutritions, they are kept in our body. In kidneys, glomerular filtration membrane display the filtration function and when glomerular filtration membrane is damaged, large amounts of red blood cells pass through the membrane and get out of our body with urine.

How to deal with bloody urine in kidney disease?

For bloody urine resulted from damaged glomerular filtration membrane, repairing kidney damages is necessary. Only when we repair the damaged, glomerular filtration membrane display filtration function again, and also red blood cells can not pass through it casually. As long as red blood cells are stopped from being leaked out, bloody urine is alleviated.

Most of the time, kidney disease patients are prescribed with some oral medications to deal with this matter. Some medicines show quick effects, but they can not repair kidney damages. Therefore, bloody urine relapses frequently. In cases of kidney disease, bloody urine is just one of the symptom and if we want to remove it radically, we must repair kidney damages. Only when we remove the cause of it, can this problem be solved fundamentally.