Question

What are the symptoms of Bright's disease?

Answer 1

Bright's disease: It is also known as chronic nephritis, which is a type of disease that causes inflammation in the kidney tissues.

The symptoms of bright's disease are as follows:

1. Presence of albumin in the urine: there will be less absorption of protein as the kidneys fail to function which leads to the accumulation of albumin in the urine.
2. Edema: it is the condition where the legs, ankles, and foot swells up severely by the accumulation of sodium salts, water, and protein in the blood that is retained due to inflammation and dysfunction of the kidneys.
3. Weight gain: due to the accumulation of high fluids weight of the body increases.
4. Hypertension: the fluids increase and the blood pressure or the blood flow increases which causes hypertension.