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How To Stop Protine Leakage With Urine?
Hi doctor My wife has a problem with protein in Urine. The 24 hour testing showed that she had a leakage of over 1 gram of protein per day. She was given a high blood pressure medication and she has used or using control diet and fruit and vegetable diet for 2 months. Her recently tests show her blood presure is 117/73, with 72 pulses. We asked the kindeys doctor to give her a new medication, called: Angiotension, supposed to stop the protein from leaking out of the urine. The kidneys doctor refused to do just that. Can you please inform us as how to stop this protein leakage. The MIR shows she has some cysts in her kidneys and are not growing at this time. I ask my wife to eat less meat protein and using lots of fruits and vegetables. Pleas provide me a correct solution. Thanks. Wally
Tue, 8 Sep 2015
Hi, welcome to HCM.
Looking to your wife's history, it seems that she has proteinuric kidney disease.
Protein leakage in urine is abnormal and it requires exact quantification by 24 hour urine analysis.
Second step is to confirm the cause of protein leakage.
She require sonography of kidney and S. creatinine.
Then consult your nephrologist ask about need for kidney biopsy to confirm the diagnosis.
Cystic kidney does not require biopsy. In that case ACE inhibitor or ARB may be useful to reduce protein leakage , as per pt's BP.
You can get back to me also with above repr\orts.
I think this would be helpful to you.
Best wishes. TC.
Dr Jay Patel.
Looking to your wife's history, it seems that she has proteinuric kidney disease.
Protein leakage in urine is abnormal and it requires exact quantification by 24 hour urine analysis.
Second step is to confirm the cause of protein leakage.
She require sonography of kidney and S. creatinine.
Then consult your nephrologist ask about need for kidney biopsy to confirm the diagnosis.
Cystic kidney does not require biopsy. In that case ACE inhibitor or ARB may be useful to reduce protein leakage , as per pt's BP.
You can get back to me also with above repr\orts.
I think this would be helpful to you.
Best wishes. TC.
Dr Jay Patel.
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