Causes of nephritis, risk factors of nephritis

Condition analysis:
There are many different factors that have been known to trigger off kidney nephritis disease. Given below are some of the most common causes for nephritis:

-- Autoimmune Disorders: Under normal circumstances, your immune system plays the important role of identifying the different parts of your body and distinguishing them from any invaders that may try to enter. Your immune system also then tries to attack the invaders, so that the body can get rid of them. However, some factors can cause your immune system to attack normal parts of the body, instead of the invaders. There are several organs in the human body that can be affected by such autoimmune disorders, the kidney being one of them. There are numerous kidney diseases that can occur as a result of immune system problems and nephritis is one of them.

-- Bacteria: One of the most common causes of infections and inflammation in children as well as adults is the streptococcus bacteria

-- Medication: It has been seen that those who have been taking certain medication for a long period of time may be more prone to nephritis, as compared to the others. The use of specific medicines is one of the causes of nephritis in older people.
 
-- Heredity Factors: Nephritis disease has been known to run in the members of a family. Therefore, you are at a much higher risk of developing this condition, if any of your parents or siblings has been diagnosed with it, at some point.

Instructions:
Prevention of infection: Nephritis patients should prevent infection actively, because infections well increase the illness condition, such as upper respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection and so on. At the same time, you also need to pay attention to the hygiene of living places, to keep the indoor clean and so on. But, for the existence of infectious diseases, you should have an actively treatment.