Children's HSPN

With the change in recent years, pediatric spectrum of disease, kidney disease was arelative increase in trend. Nephritis, is quietly attacks on children.
Child disease is allergic to certain factors, causing systemic vascular inflammatorylesions, skin manifestations point as a red rash, which is called purpura, kidney damage to the called purpura nephritis. Purpura nephritis may be associated with infection andallergy. In some cases before the onset of infection, the most common upper respiratory tract infection (non-specific or streptococcal infection), such as chlamydia, chicken poxand parasites, and so on. Many cases of disease, drugs (antibiotics, iodine and amines, salicylates, barbiturates, and iodide) or food (dairy, fish, shrimp, crabs and clams, etc.)allergies.
Purpura nephritis, purpura and rash, a part of the main leg front, knee, near the ankle andhip, and of varying sizes, different shapes, often symmetry. Purpura slightly higher than the leather, the pressure does not fade, with a slight itching. Began to bright red, laterbecome dark red, brown. The small number of patients also can be expressed asurticaria, angioedema, erythema multiforme, and even ulcers, necrosis. Purpura can also be integrated into the film, often in batches repeatedly, and some may be associated with localized or diffuse edema of the head, face, eyelids.
Children suffering from purpura nephritis and extrarenal symptoms include skin purpura, abdominal pain, blood in the stool. Some sick child very severe pain, severeintussusception, intestinal perforation, intestinal bleeding. General there are knee, ankle, wrist or elbow pain. Renal symptoms of view, generally two weeks to two months after theskin purpura, there will be hematuria, oliguria, edema, high blood pressure.
To remind parents that this happens, do not blindly give a child medication according todoctor's diagnosis and the child's symptomatic treatment.