Re: Re: Brights Disease

Thursday, Dec 23, 2004

Re: Re: Brights Disease
Posted by Miller on 11/25/02 at 09:09 PM

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what it is birghts disease was used as a generic term for all Kidney ailments in the early days. Even as recent as the 50’s a kidney problem that produced blood cells, and albumin in the urine was called Brights disease. With the diagnosis techiniques they have today, it is usually called ” —“” nephritis. My children’s father was first diagnosed with Brights disease in the 1950’s. After a biopsy in the 60’s it was determined to chronic glomerial nephritis which was a degeneration of the kidneys and resulted in total kidney failure with life only sustained by hemo dialaysis (artificial kidney machine). Nephritis is just an infection of the kidneys which can be acute and kill a person or can be cured with antibiotics. Does that tell you enough about Brights disease? Most likely he died of kidney failure.