Causes Of Headache In Kidney Failure Patients

2015-04-04 08:44

Kidney failure indicates that kidney function has been damaged severely. When kidneys are damaged badly, they cannot discharge metabolic wastes from the body. In this condition, patients will suffer from many obvious symptoms and headache is one of the complications.

Headache will affect patients’ life quality greatly such as patients’ mood and sleep quality. Well, what are the causes of headache in kidney failure?

In fact, many factors can cause headache:

1. high blood pressure

High blood pressure is a common complication in kidney failure. As for kidney disease patients, it is very dangerous for them to have high blood pressure because it will lead to many serious problems. When blood pressure is high, it will lead to vasospasm, causing headache. Besides, patients take too many hypotensive medications, which is another cause of headache.

2. neurotoxin

Kidney failure will make lots of metabolic wastes accumulating in patients’ blood. Some toxins will damage patients’ nerve system, which may result in many problems like headache, dizziness and drowsiness.

3. electrolyte imbalance

One of the kidney functions is to regulate electrolytes so when kidney function is damaged, patients will have metabolic disorder. Some electrolytes play an important role in neuromuscular system. For example, if the electrolytes have something wrong, you will have headache.

4. encephaledema

Kidney failure patients are possible to have severe edema. Edema in encephaledema is extremely obvious when on dialysis. In fact, encephaledema can also lead to renal hypertension, which can change the permeability of brain blood vessels.

Kidneys are important for our body health. Therefore, kidney disease patients should treat their disease positively. If you have any question, you can leave a message below or send email to kidneycares@hotmail.com. We will reply you as soon as possible.

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