What Can I Do To Avoid Flank/Abdominal Pain In PKD

2015-04-07 08:58

Flank or abdominal pain is the most common complication in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). With age and enlargement of kidney cyst, the pain is serious. Acute pain or sharp pain indicates kidney cyst burst, urinary tract blockage or infection caused by stone or blood clot. Chronic pain can be caused by enlarged kidneys or cyst oppressing surrounding organs. What can be done to avoid flank/abdominal pain in PKD?

As we mentioned above, pain in PKD can be caused by several factors, so the treatment should be different. Different cause of pain has different treatment.

1. If your pain is caused by urinary tract infection, you should take antibiotics to relieve the condition of urinary tract infection.

2. If you have stone, surgery and traditional Chinese herbs can be used to remove the stone from your body. Besides, Chinese herbs have no side effects and do less harm to the patients.

3. If your pain is caused by enlarged kidney cyst and ruptured cysts, you should take treatment to shrink kidney cysts. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can help you achieve this purpose. This therapy is a kind of external application. Chinese herbs are refined into powder and packaged into two medicated bags. These two bags are put on patients’ back where kidneys are. Patients just need to lie on the bed to take this treatment. With the help of osmosis machine, the active substances can come to kidneys directly. It can expand blood vessels, improve blood circulation on the cystic wall and gradually shrink the cysts in size. Pain in the flank/abdominal area can get relieved after the cysts’ pressure on the surrounding renal tissues is reduced.

You should treat your pain according to your own medical conditions. If you have any question about kidney disease, you can leave a message below or consult our online doctor directly.

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