Kidney patient, male with protein in urine, elevated urea and creatinine

[Drakula]

GFR 32

Protein in urine

Elevated creatinine and area

30 years male.

My wife is pregnant with my child.

I am very concerned about the health of my coming child.

I am puzzled whether my health condition will affect the quality of my sperm and that's why the quality of the coming child.

Need suggestions.

Very tensed

[SN23]

Sending prayers your way. Please do not worry, it never helps. Being proactive about your diet, excercise, controlling other issues such as blood pressure and generally being positive will surely help. There are many on this site who have by making appropriate changes to diet and life style improved their health. Do you have access to a renal dietician? They can help you prepare a diet plan based on your labs. By being positive, proactive and supportive you can also help your wife and your soon to be born child. My very best wishes to you and your family.

[Georgieo100]

Hi I wouldn't of thought so unless it's something genetic causing the issue... Ask your health professionals

[Beckett24]

Hi, Drakula. Congratulations to your wife and yourself on the blessed event. The best thing you can do right now is take care of yourself so you will see your child grow up and have children. You have to educate yourself and put in the work. This new book came out on January 2019 and it is a tome on Chronic Kidney Disease and how to take care of yourself: Stopping Kidney Disease by Lee Hull - available on Amazon. It has the most up to date information on CKD all backed up by published case studies from the medical community included in the book. You can skim or skip the case studies. Read the reviews. Good luck!

[kwikc]

Hello,

I wouldn't worry about that. You can look up studies on the subject which are pretty technical like this one: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/254...,

which say that the quality of sperm is okay, but the sperm count may be lower. So what? You've already father one child. Not a concern.

You do need, however, to have a nephrologist (i.e., a proactive one) and maybe also a renal dietitian (if you can find one). Either the neph. or your primary should monitor what you eat and what medical treatments you are planning to get before you get them. Watch out for conflicts in what they say.

The book mentioned is a 500 page tome which you may investigate, but you may not be interested to that extent, I might suspect. All the recommendations you find might be mainly anecdotal and may indeed not apply to you; we're all biological individuals. Most will tell you to avoid NSAIDS and some antibiotics and maybe even some statins. I would add that before you take any new med you take a baseline reading by having a renal panel and urinalysis. Then have the nephrologist adjust or discard that med or OTC drug/supplement. That, however, may not be supported by your docs. If they won't support that much testing, you can always buy the test online w/o an exam.