How to Relieve Back Pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease
2013-03-17 15:55
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a progressive kidney disorder and many PKD patients can live without any symptom for several decades. This means the onset of back pain is an alarm of several complications for these patients. Then, how to relieve back pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease becomes one of these patients’ biggest concerns.
Why does back pain occur in Polycystic Kidney Disease?
Back or lower side pain is the most common symptom of Polycystic Kidney Disease. When patients are young, kidney cysts are relatively small so they don’t cause any symptoms. However, with age, patients’ cysts grow bigger and bigger. If some of these renal cysts grow too large, one of them ruptures or some kidney stones form, back pain occurs easily. The pain is usually intermittent and dull. In some cases, it can be sudden and sharpened.
How to relieve back pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease?
From the above, we can know shrinking renal cysts, preventing the rupture of renal cysts and dissolving kidney stones is the key to alleviate these patients’ back pain. Therefore, the relative treatment is as follow:
◆ Make sure the cause of back pain
Different patients have a great individual difference in the cause of their back pain, so they should do a detailed examination before using any treatment.
◆ Have a good bed rest and avoid fatigue
Over-tiredness can aggravate patients’ back pain. What’s more, if patients’ back pain is caused by rupture of renal cyst, bed rest is very necessary to prevent or relieve urinary tract infections.
◆ Shrink renal cysts
Here, we recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which is an effective treatment in shrinking renal cysts for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease. If you are suffering from back pain caused by enlarged kidney cysts, you can learn more about this treatment from “Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy for Polycystic Kidney Disease”.
◆ Use some Chinese therapies including medicated bath, acupuncture and massage
These therapies are able to relieve back pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease, but they can’t replace the root treatment. Therefore, the effective treatment to stop the progression of PKD developing renal failure should also be sought.
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