What Can Cause Bladder Pain for PKD Patients

2014-04-10 08:52

What can cause bladder pain for PKD patients? Recently, some PKD patients send e-mails to us to complain the bladder pain they are suffering from, which make many painfulness in their daily life. In this article, we will help these PKD patients to solve their bladder pain problems, and we hope this will be helpful for them. If you still have some questions after reading, you can contact with online doctor freely, who are 24 hours online.

Bladder is a hollow organ which is located in lower abdomen and has the function of storing urine. When the urine fills in bladder, it will cause the expand of bladder, and when the bladder empties during urination, the bladder will change into normal size. There are several different bladder problems that can cause bladder pain, such as interstitial cystitis, urinary tract infection and bladder cancer.

Then what can cause bladder pain for PKD patients?

From above, we can know that urinary tract infection is a common cause of bladder pain, and it is also a common complication for PKD patients. So the main cause of bladder pain for PKD patients is urinary tract infection. In general the urinary tract is sterile. However, for PKD patients, they have a poor immunity or immune system disorder, which can cause the bacteria sneak in through the urethra, and the urethra connects with bladder with the outside of the body. A urinary tract infection can affect any part of the urinary system, which include bladder, ureters, urethra and kidneys. So when PKD patients get a urinary tract infection, they may have bladder pain.

What are the symptoms when PKD patients get bladder infection?

- Pain or burning during urination

- Feel urgent when need to urination

- Pain or tenderness in abdomen

- Cloudy, bloody or foul-smelling urine

- Low-grade fever

And the doctor usually diagnoses the urinary tract infection through a urine test and testing the bacteria.

If the bladder pain is caused by urinary tract infection, they need to take certain medicines to treat the infection, and they also need to drink more water, which can help washing the urinary and remove the bacteria into urine.

However, since the illness condition is different from case to case, the bladder pain can also be caused by some other factors. So PKD patients need to see their doctors immediately and find the basic cause of their bladder pain, they also need to have effective treatment, which can help prevent the possible kidney damage and slow down the progression of kidney failure.

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