Nephritis: Is It Normal Urinating Every Hour

Nephritis is considered as an inflammation in kidneys and it will hurt kidney tissues, resulting in various symptoms if it cannot be treated well. Some patients complain they are torturing the urinating every hour for a long time. This brings about much incontinence in their life.

Frequent urinating

Nephritis is caused by the disordered immune system. Once it is aroused by some factors, immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders and domestic cells. So the kidney will be hurt by this crazy immune system and many immune complexes are formed during this immunoreaction. This immune system is also considered as invaders in kidney, so the furious inflammation can be continued like this.

Kidneys contain many tissues and there are two important ones which are glomeruli and renal tubules. The former one is used to filter the blood and form the initial urine and the renal tubule can concentrate it to produce the urine which can be discharged from the body. In these patients, their renal tubule is damaged by renal inflammation, so the initial urine cannot be concentrated. So patients have much more urine than before and have to endure the frequent urinating.

Risks of urinating every hour caused by nephritis


First of all, patients’ life is totally broken up by frequent urinating. Especially going to bathroom many times at night greatly affects their sleep and they cannot have enough energy to do their work. Besides, the initial urine also contains much nutrition or other essential thing the body need. But now the damaged renal tubules cannot reabsorb them, so patient may lose some useful essential elements. The last one is that the inflammation in renal tubules will spread to other kidney tissues. If glomeruli are damaged, the filtering function of kidneys cannot be done well. In this way, the excess water and wastes have to stay in the body to poison the tissues and organs.