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Learn what is Benign Hematuria from Dr. Juan Kupferman MD Ped Nephrology...

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Learn what is Benign Hematuria from Dr. Juan Kupferman MD Ped Nephrology

Added: 8/16/07

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By: Guest 11 months ago

my friend has left several samples of urine with her dr. the urine she leaves is more blood than urine. This has been going on since dec. or longer. Her dr. says it is benign hematuria and she will just just have to learn to live with this. she's been to many many specialist. She has sudden onset scoliosis, and several other sever diseases... her rib cage has dropped and is setting on her tilted pevis. Every day she gets more and more tired. I live with a chronic illness which includes chronic fatigue, but I can not except the fact that you can live very long with that much blood loss. nor can I except the fact that she just has to learn not to notice she is peeing almost pure blood. We are distraught and lost at this point. I do not want to lose my best friend. Any advise would be deeply appreciated. thank you in advance for your attention to my queries! b.s.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

I had blood in my urine, however there is no pain when urinating? Is this painless Hematuria?

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What is Benign Hematuria

Male1: The urine looks normal and the doctor knows there is a little bit of red blood cells in there and he checks it a few times and they do a sonogram—other people they actually can have a little bit of blood in the urine and not be a big problem? Male2: That is correct. Blood in the urine is not uncommon either. Blood in the urine can be caused by many, many different things and many are benign and sometimes, it is not. Stones can cause blood in the urine, inflammation in the kidney can cause blood in the urine. Regarding your question, many kids have blood in the urine, but if you repeat it a couple of times, it may disappear. The question is what happens if it does not? We do tests to see if there is any disease that can cause this blood in the urine, we do ultrasounds to see if there is any anomaly, but if we see that all the laboratory workup is normal and the patient is normal, we just call it asymptomatic microscopic hematuria and we follow periodically. Male1: Does it run in families sometimes? Male2: I was going into that. It does run in families. We call it sometimes, when it runs in families, we call it benign familial hematuria. What is interesting is that maybe it is genetic and we usually do not test and we usually do not do biopsies to confirm why the patient has hematuria, however, studies done in the adult population, a while ago have shown that there are diseases that are benign and that run families and can cause this blood in the urine. What do we do? If the situation does not worsen, if the blood in the urine stays stable, we watch it periodically and we do not need to do anything, we do not need to give any medication, we just ach because things can get worse and that is what we want to do if we want to see if the condition is worse. Male1: Is that common or occasionally, we get a sonogram and show something else? Male2: Correct, yes sure. Male1: Because sometimes, there are some things that can present that way, but generally it is not, but you can always have your primary care physician and evaluate and follow up because there can always be a problem that is not working well.

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What is Hematuria?

Hematuria means blood in the urine. Microscopic hematuria indicates that the blood is only seen when the urine is examined under a microscope.

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Male1: The urine looks normal and the doctor knows there is a little bit of red blood cells in there and he checks it a few times and they do a sonogram—other people they actually can have a little bit of blood in the urine and not be a big problem?
Male2: That is correct. Blood in the urine is not uncommon either. Blood in the urine can be caused by many, many different things and many are benign and sometimes, it is not. Stones can cause blood in the urine, inflammation in the kidney can cause blood in the urine. Regarding your question, many kids have blood in the urine, but if you repeat it a couple of times, it may disappear. The question is what happens if it does not? We do tests to see if there is any disease that can cause this blood in the urine, we do ultrasounds to see if there is any anomaly, but if we see that all the laboratory workup is normal and the patient is normal, we just call it asymptomatic microscopic hematuria and we follow periodically.
Male1: Does it run in families sometimes?
Male2: I was going into that. It does run in families. We call it sometimes, when it runs in families, we call it benign familial hematuria. What is interesting is that maybe it is genetic and we usually do not test and we usually do not do biopsies to confirm why the patient has hematuria, however, studies done in the adult population, a while ago have shown that there are diseases that are benign and that run families and can cause this blood in the urine. What do we do? If the situation does not worsen, if the blood in the urine stays stable, we watch it periodically and we do not need to do anything, we do not need to give any medication, we just ach because things can get worse and that is what we want to do if we want to see if the condition is worse.
Male1: Is that common or occasionally, we get a sonogram and show something else?
Male2: Correct, yes sure.
Male1: Because sometimes, there are some things that can present that way, but generally it is not, but you can always have your primary care physician and evaluate and follow up because there can always be a problem that is not working well.

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