IgA Nephropathy and Urine Odor

When urine persistently smells bad or has a foul, strong or unusual odor, it indicates underlying causes of IgA Nephropathy, such as bloody urine, infection, the discharge of toxins etc.


Different smells usually indicates various potential injuries for IgA Nephropathy suffers.

Urine always presents like fishy smelling. It may be an indicator telling your blood in urine. You’d better to check urine test and see if you are undergoing Hematuria. If the answer is yes, your glomerular basilar membrane is possibly being threatened. You might as well communicate with your doctors that whether the medications you are taking for IgA Nephropathy aims at repairing glomeruli or not. Generally speaking, once your glomeruli are repaired, blood rarely appears in your urine again.

Urine odor also can follow infections with a foul smell. For instance, urine tract or cystitis can trigger the unusual scent. In this situation, you need to talk with your doctors as soon as possible and take immediate actions, for infections easily can trigger or aggravate IgA Nephropathy.

Urine odor is not always annoying signals. If it smells strong, namely, you urine has a strong ammonia quality, it may reveals that your some toxins, such as excess immune complex, are sent out through urine. Usually this happens in Chinese Medicine therapy. Many Chinese therapies have functions of degrading extracellular matrix which will removed out in urination.

In addition, odor urine also appears temporarily after eating certain food or taking certain medications. You should not worry too much about that.