Kidney Disease Symptoms While Pregnant. Preeclampsia or pregnancy induced hypertension and severe urinary tract infections can both be signs of kidney disease during pregnancy. Women who have kidney disorders prior to pregnancy are more likely to have kidney problems during pregnancy.
Metallic taste in the mouth of ammonia. If pregnant women have a kidney disorder they are more likely to develop high blood pressure including preeclampsia a type of high blood pressure that develops during pregnancy having a chronic kidney disorder before becoming pregnant increases the risk that the fetus will not grow as much as expected small for gestational age or be stillborn. Diabetes and high blood pressure are the main causes of chronic kidney disease.
Most kidney diseases have similar signs and symptoms that include.
Ckd increases the risk of pre eclampsia. Finally pregnant women tend to have higher urinary levels of glucose than nonpregnant women. High blood pressure swelling or numbness of hands and feet blood in urine protein in urine loss of appetite nausea back side or abdominal pain fatigue muscle cramps kidney failure kidney stones. There is further an expansion of blood volume and increased load on the kidneys in pregnant women resulting in increased urine output in the face of decreased mobility of the ureters.