What are the effects of sponge kidney in women?

Sponge kidney is a relatively rare congenital disease, which does not have much impact on the daily life of patients. However, sponge kidney can cause people's renal function to weaken, kidneys to develop incompletely, and urinary tract infections to occur frequently. Sponge kidney can also affect people's digestive function and make the kidneys more fragile than normal people. So, what are the effects of sponge kidney in women?

Sponge kidney is a congenital developmental abnormality and does not require treatment if urine routine test results are normal. Sponge kidney is a disease that occurs in the renal medullary system. Sponge kidney itself has no serious effects, but it can make you more susceptible to urinary tract infections. Repeated frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination or blood in the urine may occur, followed by many stones. It is recommended to drink more water and pay attention to hygiene to prevent urinary tract infection or even a mild urinary tract infection, which is the cure.

Common symptoms include recurrent gross or microscopic hematuria, symptoms of urinary tract infection, low back pain, renal colic and a history of stone passage. Some patients may present with painless gross hematuria. Clinical symptoms are caused by urine retention in the dilated cyst, followed by infection, bleeding or stones. Patients often have urinary tract infections, and when combined with infection, they may have pyuria. Although the glomerular filtration rate is decreased, the renal concentrating function is reduced, the uric acidification function is insufficient or there is renal tubular acidosis, the renal function is generally normal and rarely develops to end-stage renal failure. When the disease develops to the late stage, anemia, sodium loss, and azotemia may occur.

1. General treatment is to supplement sodium salt. Severe hematuria requires blood transfusion to correct anemia. If parathyroid hyperplasia and bone fibrosis are severe, sodium, calcium and vitamin E can be taken.

2. Drink more water to increase urine volume to prevent or reduce stone formation; once stones are formed, they should be treated for stone removal. If a urinary tract infection occurs, appropriate antibiotics should be selected

, actively control it. If long-term bleeding or infection in one kidney cannot be controlled, or if kidney stones are severe, partial or unilateral nephrectomy may be carefully considered.

3. There is no need to perform unnecessary stone removal treatment for sponge kidney stones, because the stones are located in the renal pyramidal collecting duct. Long-term stone removal treatment is not only useless, but also affects gastrointestinal function. In addition, the most important thing to pay attention to is to protect kidney function.

4. Pay attention to reasonable nutrition in daily life, diversify your food as much as possible, eat more high-protein, multi-vitamin, low-animal fat, easily digestible food and fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat stale, spoiled or irritating foods, eat less smoked, grilled, pickled, fried, and overly salty foods, and combine coarse and fine grains in staple foods to ensure nutritional balance.