Question

What are the symptoms of Bright’s disease?

Answer 1

Bright’s disease also known as acute or chronic nephritis is a kidney disease of the kidney. Bright's disease was first discovered by the English physician Richard Bright for $1827$, after whom the disease was named. Bright's disease is characterized by swelling of the kidney and presence of high amounts of albumin in the urine. The treatment for this disease includes diuretics, opium, warm baths, mercuric compounds etc.

Complete answer:
Bright’s disease is a term used to describe patients who have glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis is an inflammation of the glomeruli in the kidneys. The main function of glomeruli is to remove extra fluids, wastes and electrolytes from the bloodstream and pass them into the urine. Bright’s disease or glomerulonephritis may be acute or chronic. It also may occur on its own or be a part of another disease (for example, lupus and diabetes).
Glomerulonephritis can damage the kidneys in the long run by causing prolonged inflammation.
The symptoms and signs of Bright’s disease include blood in the urine, swelling of the face, eyes and other body parts, foamy urine, abdominal pain, elevated blood pressure, tiredness etc. The cause of glomerulonephritis can be due to a variety of infections or diseases. In the long run, it may cause severe kidney damage.

Note:
Acute glomerulonephritis is a sudden onset of the disease and can be characterized by severe inflammation and swelling in the kidney, back pain and increased blood pressure. Acute glomerulonephritis is less adverse than the chronic one. In chronic glomerulonephritis, the size of the kidney is reduced and shrivelled and the surface becomes granular. Due to this, the filtering of waste products from the blood is affected and leads to the condition called Uraemia.