Kidney Pain with IgA Nephropathy: Causes and Managements

So many people with IgA Nephropathy have complained that they get flank pain or back pain around kidney area, dull and achy most of the time but sometimes very sharp and severe, so they are eager to find out the causes and managements of kidney pain with IgA Nephropathy. Read on! I promise you can get the information what you want to know.

Kidney pain with IgA Nephropathy: causes

Even though many people who have IgA Nephropathy suffer from kidney pain, this pain is uncommon in the early stage of IgA Nephropathy. Pain around kidney area usually occurs and becomes severe with the loss of kidney function. When the kidney can’t work normally, immune complex IgA, C3 and fibrous proteins will damage the gastrointestinal tract and intestinal mucosa arteries. In view of this, flank pain or back pain in IgA Nephropathy may be due to the following three factors:

● Loss of kidney function

● Urinary tract blockage

● Urinary tract infections

Kidney pain with IgA Nephropathy: Managements

Some patients try to take some painkillers like aspirin to remit their horrible pain, but few of these medicines can work very well, because they can’t ease patients’ pain from the root cause. Different causes needs various treatments. The first cause, by contrast, is more difficult to manage than the later two causes. Here, we would like to introduce some methods to help these patients ease their pain and improve their kidney function.

Drinking some herbal tea: If you can still have enough urine, drinking a glass of herbal tea such as nettle leaf and dandelion root can help not only prevent urinary tract infections but also increase the rate of kidney filtering wastes. However, not all patients are suitable for the same tea, therefore you can consult the doctor online to give you some suggestions.

Massage: It is quite effective to remit patients’ pain including back pain, headache and so on. In addition, massage can also help boost the immune system and make patients get rid of fatigue.

Medicated bath: Adding many herbal medicines that are able to extend patients’ blood vessels and help eliminate more wastes from the body into the water, medicated bath has a big benefit for people with IgA Nephropathy.

Immunotherapy: Compared with steroid, Immunotherapy is used to not only remit patients’ symptoms but also treat patients’ kidney disease, through removing the immune complexes and improve patients’ condition.

If you are bothered by the sharp kidney pain with IgA Nephropathy, welcome to leave a message or send email to kidneycares@hotmail.com for kidney experts and then they will give you biggest help.