Anyone had a 'leaking kidney' in pregnancy?

[lennon80]

Hi just wondering if anyone can shed any light on this for me. I have been having protein and glucose come back in all of my urine samples (past six) and my doctor says this could be why (either that or diabetes for which I have the tolerance test in a couple of weeks). I am currently 33 weeks pregnant. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Hello there

Not exactly, but I did have something similar-ish diagnosed back in May, for which I'm still receiving treatment.

It's a kidney disease called Minimal Change, which has all sorts of symptoms (generally lumped under the name Nephrotic Syndrome), including: leaking protein (13.5g), high cholesterol and swollen feet, ankles, legs, including pitting edemas.

Steroids fixed the leak very quickly (in two weeks), and I'm still on them, and will stay on them at a lower dose for the duration of my pregnancy, as there's a slight risk the disease might return if the dose drops too low.

I hasten to add it would be very unlikely that you have this, as it's rare in adults (and treatable btw!), and more commonly affects children - but it's not beyond the realms, so ask your GP rule it out =)

MOST WOMEN, APPARENTLY! sorry for caps lock there. yes, apparently the hormones released in pregnancy make the kidneys a bit leaky. i hope they will be checking your blood pressure regularly and hope the gd test comesback ok. try not to worry.

Yes I had it with both pg, leaking mainly glucose. diabetes negative.
No other cause was found, both me and babies are healthy.
Are they checking for an UTI for the proteins as well?

Hi thanks ladies for your replies. Everything I can find on the subject is suggestive of some sort of renal faliure in early stages which all sounds rather scary. So I am guessing it is somehting which resolves itself after the baby is born and doesnt leave lasting damage?

Mamaloco yes they are checking for UTI too and have given me another course of anitbiotics 'just in case' but as I have SPD I keep thinking this is the cause of my pain when its turned out to be a UTI.