Can IgA Nephropathy Deprive Your Right of Becoming a mother

Having a happy and completed family is the dream for all of us. It seems a simple thing for most of us. However, for the patients with IgA Nephropathy, they have many worries about their pregnancy. Here this article will provide some information to response to the frequent questions: can the women with IgA Nephropathy have children?

According to some researches, if the women with IgA Nephropathy have a good control of blood pressure and do not have renal injury, it is possible for them to have a healthy baby without causing adverse influence to the women. In other words, the patients should keep their blood pressure within 140/90 mmHg and creatinine level is below 1.1 mg/dl. However, it does not mean they do not have any risk just like other normal women. They should also know that pregnancy itself is also a risk factor for them. Some women with IgA Nephropathy keep very well before pregnancy, but their disease begins to aggravate during or after birth. This may accelerate the deterioration of renal function suddenly. In addition, if they can not control their disease condition very well, it will increase the risk of abortion, stillbirth, and growth retardation of the fetus and so on.

What’s more, we all know that pregnant women are not allowed to use too many medicines during pregnancy to avoid the adverse stimulation to the fetus. However, if the women with IgA Nephropathy have fluctuation of disease condition during pregnancy, they will have to use medicines, which will certainly cause much risk to their fetus. Therefore, a systemic treatment before pregnancy is very important for the childbearing women with IgA Nephropathy.

However, in the conventional therapies, the doctors just prescribe some medicines to treat the clinical symptoms such as proteinuria, hematuria, and high blood pressure and so on. When those symptoms disappear, they simply think their disease recovers. However, as those therapies can not treat the fundamental causes of IgA Nephropathy, their disease is very likely to relapse again.
Especially for the pregnant women, the pregnancy can increase the relapse rate and even cause their kidneys to fail in a short time.


Therefore, for the woman with IgA Nephropathy, what they should do primarily is to treat the fundamental cause of IgA Nephropathy, namely, repairing the damaged kidneys to improve and even recover the normal renal function. In this way, they will be have a healthy baby safely.