How to Monitor Kidney Disease in Children

Chris had a protein creatinine ratio and this being albumin which should work for us getting a spot. How often should we be following this stuff? That's an excellent question. Like you said if they have just hematuria alone then I'll usually do yearly for hematuria, protonuria, creatinine. If they have protonuria I usually recommend following every six months like we talked about but sometimes I'll do more frequently if we're doing something like starting an ACE inhibitor to try and optimally control their protonuria. Then as far as those other CKD labs the monitoring frequency completely depends on the stage. For stage 3 CKD I'llusually do