What Does Blood In Urine Mean?

Blood urine can be a spell of Chronic Kidney Disease, but not everyone with blood urine is certainly suffering kidney problem.

Blood urine is diagnosed when there are excessive red blood cells in urine and it can be microscopic or gross. For people with CKD like IgA Nephropathy, the severity of blood urine usually reflects the severity of illness condition and prognosis condition. Blood urine also can be called hematuria and for microscopic hematuria, as it needs to be diagnosed with the help of microscope, it is not easy to be found. However, for gross hematuria, as it is visible, in some cases, it is the primary cause of patients to go to hospital for examination. With microscopic, our urine looks the same with normal urine. But if we are suffering gross hematuria, we can found our urine appears as red, tea-colored or dark-orange.

Blood urine is just one of the symptoms of CKD, and aside from kidney problem, many other conditions also can cause blood in urine. The common causes for blood in urine go as follows:

1. Urinary tract infection

2. Kidney infection

3. Kidney stone

4. CKD like IgA Nephropathy, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Acute Glomerulonephritis, Chronic Glomerulonephritis and so on.

5. Acute urocystitis

6. Tumor in urinary tract or adjacent internal organs.

7. Hemorrhagic disorders like Henoch-Schӧnlein purpura, Leukemia and so on.

8. Congenital Malformation

9. Medications

Although blood urine is one of the symptoms of CKD, not everyone with blood in urine is definitely suffering from kidney problem. Therefore, when blood urine is diagnosed, founding out the causes is very important.