How to Deal with Back Pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease

Different from other types of kidney problem like Nephrotic Syndrome, Polycystic Kidney Disease can bring patients severe back pain. Sometimes the pain is unbearable and patients can not concentrate on what they are doing. Well then, how does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause back pain and how to deal with pain caused by PKD?
How does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause back pain?
1.In cases of Polycystic Kidney Disease, patients usually suffer from sudden or acute back pain when there are infected cysts, urinary tract infection, a bursting cyst or kidney stones.
2.People with ADPKD often get persistent or chronic flank, lower back and/or abdominal pain that is not related to infection, bleeding into a cyst, or a kidney stone. This chronic pain is caused by developing cysts, pressure by cysts against other organs, changes in the back muscles and the spine due to enlarging cysts.
How to deal with back pain caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease?
An effective treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease should be able to help patients remitting symptoms. The followings are the common methods to alleviate kidney pain in PKD.
1. In general, drug treatment for pain should start with small doses of a weaker painkiller, gradually increasing to stronger medication as needed. Common medications for PKD include Paracetamol, No-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, Codeine,Antidepressants, and Tramadol and so on.
2. Treatment Polycystic Kidney Disease as a whole. In most of the cases, PKD patients feel pain in the location of kidney because of enlarged cysts. There are nerves in renal capsule which will be pulled when kidney cysts enlarge to a certain size. In this light, shrinking kidney cyst is very important. Kidney cyst enlarges with the increase of cystic fluids, so as long as we reduce fluids inside the cyst, kidney cyst is shrunk. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an alternative treatment for PKD, which treats PKD by making pressure difference. It is natural and painless, so if you want to get kidney cysts shrunk, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will be a good choice.
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