How Does Hematuria Affect IgA Nephropathy

Hematuria is also called blood urine and it is the dominant symptom of IgA Nephropathy. Hematuria can be clinically divided into two types: microscopic hematuria and gross hematuria. As microscopic hematuria needs to be diagnosed with microscope, it is neglected easily. For people with IgA Nephropathy, although hematuria occurs because of IgA Kidney Disease, in turn it affects IgA Nephropathy seriously.

Hematuria is clinically diagnosed when there are excessive red blood cells in urine. IgA Nephropathy is a kind of glomerular disease. Red blood cells are normally kept in our body when blood is filtered by glomerulus, however, because of damaged glomerulus, red blood cells leak and get out of our body with urine. This is the general introduce about how hematuria is formed in IgA Nephropathy.

Hematuria is just one of the symptoms of IgA Nephropathy and usually the severity of it can reflect the severity of IgA Nephropathy directly. In IgA Nephropathy, red blood cells get into urine because of damaged glomerulus, so without effective control, more and more red blood cells will leak into urine. While these red blood cells go through glomerular filtration membrane, the damages are worsened, which accelerates IgA Nephropathy in some way. Therefore, it is helpful for slowing down the progression of IgA Nephropathy if patients get hematuria controlled effectively. Besides, if IgA Nephropathy patients leave hematuria along, more and more red blood cells are lost with urine and also the red blood cell count in the blood decreases. When red blood cell count is lower than the normal range, anemia occurs. For people with IgA Nephropathy, anemia occurs usually when IgA Nephropathy develops to late stage, so tight controlling of hematuria not only slow down the progression of IgA kidney problem, but also helps to prevent anemia.

Since we know hematuria in IgA Nephropathy occurs because of damaged glomerular filtration membrane, the root solution for remove hematuria is to repair damaged filtration membrane. As long as membrane is repaired, red blood cells stop leaking and also hematuria disappears.