Pyelonephritis and nephritis is the same disease

Pyelonephritis and nephritis is the same disease
Many patients have such doubts, pyelonephritis and nephritis are the same disease?Pyelonephritis and nephritis are two different meanings. Pyelonephritis due to upper urinary tract infection caused by pathogenic microorganisms (including bacteria, fungi, etc.) to invade the renal pelvis caused by infectious diseases, evolved more than urethritis and cystitis. Nephritis is caused by human immune response to certain risk factors.
Pyelonephritis due to upper urinary tract infection caused by pathogenic microorganisms (including bacteria, fungi, etc.) to invade the renal pelvis caused by infectious diseases, evolved more than urethritis and cystitis.
Acute pyelonephritis, the majority of abrupt onset, chills, fever, often low back pain, kidney area, percussion pain, but examination showed normal renal function, generally with an antibacterial anti-inflammatory drugs timely and thorough treatment, it can be cured.
Acute pyelonephritis is not treated in time or recurring, and rough examination revealed renal cortical scarring, with the calyceal expansion and blunt, that is, chronic pyelonephritis, not the length of time to sub-acute and chronic.
Nephritis is caused by human immune response to certain risk factors.
Nephritis, also known as glomerular nephritis, generally considered to be caused by human immune response to certain risk factors. Nephritis is not pathogenic factors directly caused by kidney infection or damage, can not use anti-bacterial anti-inflammatory drugs to treat.
Nephritis common symptoms include foam increased urine, hematuria, edema, lower back pain. Foam increased urine often expressed protein in the urine, in general, the more foam, more protein; do not see the blood under the microscope is not red blood cells in the urine in the naked eye under normal circumstances, if there is gross hematuria means that urine inside the red blood cells. Color red, but this does not mean urine is hematuria, much less certain is nephritis. In addition, lesbians hematuria should pay attention to is not for the menstrual period, so the urine to avoid the menstrual period.
Chronic nephritis insidious onset, and more difficult to be perceived by patients with chronic kidney disease. In general, the common symptoms of nephritis, edema, bubble increased in urine, hematuria, lower back pain, high blood pressure.
Edema, nephritis, edema often first appear in the place of loose eyelids, face, scrotum, and later appear lower extremity edema, in severe cases can also be edema, a few people may also have ascites.
Urine foam bubble increase is often an increase in urine protein phenomenon, in general, more foam, more protein.
The hematuria Under normal circumstances, urine naked eye can not see the blood under the microscope is not red blood cells, if there is gross hematuria means that the urine inside the red blood cells have a lot. However, this does not mean that urine color red is hematuria, of course, does not mean that necessarily nephritis. In addition, lesbians hematuria should pay attention to is not for the menstrual period, so the urine to avoid the menstrual period.
Nephritis patients often do not have significant back pain lower back pain, but some patients after the nephritis thought nephritis waist is sick, why we feel back pain, this back pain as pyelonephritis and kidney stones, back pain, The pyelonephritis back pain for more than one side, more than a very severe back pain of kidney stones and to the inner thighs radiation.
Nephritis with hypertension patients may be associated or not with hypertension, but if developed into uremia, often accompanied by high blood pressure, and difficult to control, in general, nephritis the prognosis of patients with hypertension often than those without hypertension the patients poor.