How Long Can You Have Bubbly Urine before Going on Dialysis

We know that under normal circumstances, fresh urine is transparent and amber liquid and its color can have slight differences according to urine output. So why there will be bubbly urine and what cause these bubbles in urine?

Usually if the bubble is tiny and last for long time, it might be proteinuria and the earliest urinary change in nephritis is proteinuria. Besides bubbly urine, if there are other symptoms and discomforts such as edema, high blood pressure, urinary urgency, urinary frequency, urinary pain, etc, it is recommended to go to the hospital for timely diagnosis and treatments.

Proteinuria has great clinical significance and persistent proteinuria usually means renal parenchymal impairments. Some patients ask about how long they can have bubbly urine before they start dialysis. Actually bubble in urine should not be the only indicator for starting dialysis and more effective indicator is kidney functions. This is because the amount of protein leakage in urine can not reflect the severity of illness conditions. When proteinuria is lessened, it can either be the improvement or worsening of kidney functions. When the illness conditions become worsen and most glomeruli have been fibrosis, protein in urine will become less. Therefore to measure the severity of illness conditions, a comprehensive analysis should be made including the amount of protein and its duration as well as physical condition and kidney function examination.

Dialysis is an important renal replacement therapy for end stage renal disease patients to help discharge excessive wastes and water in the body so as to purify the blood and alleviate symptoms. If patients have not entered into end stage, dialysis is not necessary. What is more, only dialysis can not treat bubble urine effectively because dialysis is just a machine to replace functions of failed kidneys without any repairing of kidney damages or recovering of kidney functions. Only if the damaged glomerular filtration membrane is repaired can the protein leakage be stopped and bubbles in urine disappear.

In daily life, patients should avoid inducing factors such as cold, over-tiredness, diarrhea, etc which are easy to cause relapsing of bubbles in urine and worsening of kidney function.