Purpura nephritis five complications

1 Rash.
The rash is a skin lesion. The change from a simple skin color to the skin surface uplift or blisters, etc. There are a variety of manifestations. Performance, often for the first onset of purpura of varying sizes, higher than the surface of the skin was purple, pressure does not fade and can be integrated into the film, or was a herpes-like, urticarial or more erythema multiforme can be associated with peripheral edema.
Can occur even in severe ulceration and necrosis. The purpura common extensor surfaces of the limbs and buttocks, lower limb and ankle, knee and other joints more symmetrically batches, easy recurrent.
2 Joint symptoms.
Purpura nephritis in patients with joint symptoms, the majority of migratory polyarthralgia characterized. Commonly involved joints are the knee, ankle and hand. The symptoms subsided more than a few days, not left to joint deformity. Some children of the relevant section of swelling, pain, mostly involving large joints, such as knee, ankle, wrist, elbow and other small joints are not affected. Single, multiple or were migratory. Joint swelling, pain, pain during activity increase, the local is often accompanied by micro-hot, heavy burning sensation. Joint symptoms subsided without sequelae.
3 Gastrointestinal symptoms.
Purpura nephritis in patients with gastrointestinal manifestations most commonly abdominal pain, mainly umbilical and abdominal colic. May be associated with nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea, occasional vomiting. Children purpura nephritis can sometimes be complicated by intussusception, intestinal obstruction and intestinal perforation.
4 High blood pressure.
Purpura nephritis induced hypertension accounts for about 20% to 40% of patients with hypertension, blood pressure is generally mild to moderate increased cases of individual patients with purpura nephritis hypertensive encephalopathy. Also found that high blood pressure often with urinary abnormalities, but the majority of patients with purpura nephritis recovered rapidly.
5 Urinary tract symptoms.
The majority of children with purpura nephritis performance of urine, small amount of protein and microscopic red blood cells, sometimes see a tube type, but also had gross hematuria. Generally good prognosis, even showed a rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis after development of acute renal failure and poor prognosis. Some children have proteinuria, hematuria, edema, hypertension, hypoalbuminemia and hypercholesterolemia such as nephrotic syndrome.