What causes too much protein in your urine?

Protein is essential for the normal functioning of your body. It helps build strong muscles, keeps your immune system healthy and provides you with energy. But when it starts showing up in your urine, that’s when things start getting weird. While some cases may be caused by bad dietary habits or too much exercise, excessive protein in one’s urine is almost always a sign that something else isn’t quite right inside of us.

This article will not only crack you up but also enlighten you on what might cause this peculiar phenomenon that we all dread? Maybe just me?

First Things First

Let’s begin by understanding what we’re dealing with since ‘protein’ seems like such a fancy word used mostly at science conventions. The pee wee wee we produce daily contains small amounts of plasma proteins—most commonly albumin—and these proteins tell doctors how our kidneys are doing their filtering job.

The norm is having low levels (up to 150 mg/day)of proteins present in our pee-pee and anything above this range could indicate an underlying medical condition causing excess protein leakage into the urine — so don’t take it lightly!

What Is Proteinuria?

When there is more protein than usual being strained from the blood through tiny filters called glomeruli located within each kidney into the urine tubules and subsequently exiting the body via urination, it can lead to a condition known as ‘proteinuria’.

And if those tubules get clogged with too much protein??? Well honey! That can’t end well; sudden halt across multiple walks of life (just kidding), but jokes apart – abnormal amounts should definitely ring alarm bells for anyone experiencing them.

Below are a few potential causes:

Kidney Damage or Disease

Ever been kicked hard enough around your kidney area that eventually landed you at the hospital for a day or two? That can be enough to cause some irreversible kidney damage! And either one of these issues could be the root of your excessive protein-in-pee problem. Some conditions that can lead to renal damage are:

  • High Blood Pressure (Hypertension): The condition puts pressure on your blood vessels, making them work harder than usual consequently damaging their inner linings.

  • Glomerulonephritis: It’s basically inflammation within your tiny pee filters (your glomeruli) and this makes it difficult for proteins to pass through properly.

Diabetes

I know what you’re thinking ‘Meh, typical diabetes causes’ but listen. In circumstances where diabetes is left untreated, too much sugar in one’s blood stream might ultimately affect how our kidneys carry out filtration duties by causing injury to those important functional units I mentioned earlier – glomeruli (don’t worry if you’ve never heard this word before) which safeguards that we-only-filter-excretions-and-not-beneficial-body-substances-elementaire-mon-cher!

Other Causes You Might Not Know Of

Moving on from commonalties; see if any of these are familiar territory as well:

Medications:

In certain situations, drugs like ACE inhibitors—used for treating high blood pressure—or antibiotics —like gentamicin—taken over an extended period, could have side-effects that include excess protein being eliminated via urination due to possible kidney damage etc., etc…

Extreme Workouts/Hardcore Training Regime

It’s insane what people do nowadays🤨-Inserts all kinds of grunts- Everyone deserves a thumbs-up emoji (@Mr.Universes) but sometimes being extra-extra will land us up excessively-pumped with more muscle mass arising from breakdown products caused by increased levels of creatine kinase exhibited in our urine. Trust me when I say this – flaunting muscles is not worth any of the medical symptoms stemming from too much protein in our urine!

Infections:

Inflammation and infection within kidneys would result in more straining through glomeruli (remember this word I told you to store in your brain, it’s important)  and that could have one leak huge amounts of proteins through their urinary tracts.

That aunt who loves herbal products might just be aiding a kidney infection by using normal vinegar as UTI treatment instead of antibiotics {(recommended SOLELY by quacks)}, so kindly look over even our trusted conventional drugs beforehand as well.

Summarization

Ladies and Gentlemen, now that we’ve covered everything there is to know about excessive protein in your pee-pee, take note:

  • Treat underlying disorders affecting your kidneys (main solution)
  • Be careful with medications/drugs although wcv
    they’re doc prescribed – they might land you up at chemist longer/more frequently than needed.
  • Get ready for serious netflix time;- laundry-water-drinking-might-take-good-part-of-day-time! Just kidding – but heed the call early on before things get tricky.

Random Posts