Acute Pain in ADPKD

2015-10-13 15:17

For patients with ADPKD, pain is very common to happen, which can be acute or chronic. What is worse, these pain is very hard to control. This time we will mostly introduce how acute pain in ADPKD is caused for ADPKD patients for you:

1. infection

Cysts can be infected, in this way, diffuse pain is very likely to happen, which is unilateral or bilateral. In addition, urinary tract infection can occur on PKD patients, causing acute pain for patients. Infected cysts can cause a increased flank pain with fever.

2. hemorrhage

Blood in urine happens on patients with ADPKD very commonly, which is mainly caused by cysts rupturing. In this case, strong and acute pain appears.

3. kidney stones

It is proved that patients with PKD are more prone to developing kidney stones in daily life. One in three patients with PKD can have kidney stones in the end. And kidney stones are the leading causes of flank pain, blood in urine and urinary tract infection. Uric acid stones are the most common kidney stones in patients with PKD.

The above are major causes of acute pain for patients with ADPKD. Patients should prevent these well in life, and get proper treatment with a healthy diet: low salt, low food containing much purines which get decomposed into uric acid in body, low food containing oxalic acid, low fat and cholesterol. Chinese medicine is a option for PKD patients to treat infection, shrink kidney cysts and eliminate kidney stones by improving kidney function, and acid-base neutralization.

Pain management is very important for PKD patients, and if controlled well, normal life can not be affected by PKD. Any question or more information, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctors anytime. Reply will be given for you very soon.

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