Pain Management in Polycystic Kidney Disease

Pain both acute and chronic is a common complaint in patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), because back pain, headache, painful urination and kidney pain nearly affects all aspect of their normal life. Therefore, pain management in Polycystic Kidney Disease is needed.

Because individuals suffer from different pains that are due to various causes, the treatments should changes with patients’ condition. The method that try to only use some painkillers to remit their pain is wrong, as taking medicines blindly may cause much severer complications. According to the different causes, pain in PKD is divided into acute pain and chronic pain. Different types need different managements.

Acute pain is usually associated with urinary tract infections and hemorrhage. Urinary tract infection may due to kidney cyst rupture, while hemorrhage may be caused by kidney stone. Most often, medicines like antibiotics and TCM can help treat urinary tract infections and remove kidney stone from the body respectively. In addition, a healthy diet and a good rest on bed are also two important managing methods for pain in PKD.

As for people with chronic pain, they can be taught “how to live well with their pain”, since permanent cure of chronic pain is often not a realistic goal. Generally, chronic pain has an intimate link with cyst formation. When some of kidney cysts grow too big, they will pull their surrounding nerves and oppress the kidney tissues. Then, the area around two kidneys is easy to be painful. Therefore, we can know shrinking kidney cysts to reduce the pressure on the surrounding kidney tissues is the key to chronic pain management in Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Fortunately, in recent years, some breakthroughs have been made to help shrink polycystic cysts successfully. Among these treatments, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has an outstanding effect and this is why so many PKD patients turn their attention to this treatment. If you have severe pain caused by PKD, you can consult the kidney experts online to give your more suggestions.