+1 protein in urine?

jimmie48fan

ANyone know what that means before I google it?  

TIA

Robin 

E&RMommy

Kidneys are filters.  Usually the filter is so fine (think of a coffee filter) that large proteins can't spill through.  Sometimes in pregnant women we start to spill protein.  There is a whole variety of reasons.  In early pregnancy, it may be due to chronic conditions (high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease).  Later in pregnancy (after 20 weeks) the worry is for pre-eclampsia where protein spills and blood pressure rises.

Often it's a spurious finding that may just be from being pregnant and will go away.  Some times it is from blood in the urine and the protein turns positive from protein found in blood.

That's the long and short of it.    At 12 weeks, 1+ protein wouldn't really bother me. 

mars724

There's a range of protein being in your urine. +1 isn't necessarily a sign on pre-e, but with other factors it can tip off the doctors. 

jimmie48fan

Thanks ladies!