Many are sure that pain or tingling in the back are the first signs of kidney disease. However, this is a completely wrong opinion. Back pain can cause osteochondrosis, muscle strain, shingles, and some other diseases.
But then how do you know that it is the kidneys that cause the pain, and not the spine or muscles? What symptoms of kidney disease probably indicate inflammation?
Manifestations of kidney disease usually have common symptoms associated with the amount of urine removed. The process of urination and urination is called diuresis. A healthy person should excrete up to 1800 ml of urine per day. Of course, this amount is influenced by environmental conditions, and some diseases. Most are allocated during the day. Only in cardiac patients, the process is activated not at day, but at night. This is due to the fact that the state of the kidneys, when a person with a sick heart occupies a horizontal position, contributes to their activation.
The causes of kidney disease are different. Oliguria (decreased urination) can be caused by heart failure, glomerulonephritis, poisoning with nephrotoxic poisons contained, for example, in mushrooms.
With kidney disease, diuresis is primarily impaired. Urine can be allocated significantly less, which, as a result, causes swelling. Signs of kidney disease are swelling on the face, arms, legs. Sometimes they are pronounced, and sometimes barely noticeable. You can find out that the body is swollen by pressing on the skin with your finger. If a recess remains in the tissue, you should consider consulting a nephrologist.
Anuria i.e. complete absence of urine is a sign of acute inflammation caused by a tumor of the prostate or kidney, obstruction of the renal artery, stones in the genitourinary tract, acute poisoning or drug intoxication. Lack of urine leads to rapid intoxication of the body. If timely assistance is not provided to the patient, an emergency death awaits.
Signs of kidney disease can be manifested not only in a decrease, but also in an increase in the amount of urine excreted. Pollakiuria - increased urination and education, sometimes up to 10 liters per day. It is caused by diabetes or diabetes insipidus, other serious, often irreversible, diseases. However, in the case when the patient is undergoing treatment for oliguria or anuria, an increase in the amount of urine can be a good indicator.
Signs of kidney disease are sometimes confused with signs of other diseases. So frequent urination most often indicates inflammation or infection of the genitourinary system, the presence of stones in the ureters.
Darkening of urine is the clearest sign of diseases of the liver (such as hepatitis), blood, or bile ducts.
If the urine is redder, traces of blood appear in it, it makes sense to suspect the presence of urolithiasis or a tumor of the kidneys. Chronic glomerulonephritis can also cause reddening of urine. It should be noted that among non-specialists there is often an opinion that the kidneys can be “frozen”, and then the urine turns red. This is not true. It is almost impossible to catch the kidneys : they are deep in the body, their temperature never drops below 37.5 °. But to cause an exacerbation of chronic glomerulonephritis or another chronic disease, hypothermia is quite capable.
A sign of kidney disease is renal colic: a condition in which a person feels intolerable pain on one side of the abdomen, which is strongly given to the pubis and limb. This condition requires immediate medical attention.
Other vivid symptoms accompanying renal disease: fever and pressure, general increased weakness, fatigue, sudden weight loss.
In any case, the slightest ailment caused by any reason should lead to an immediate meeting with a doctor, timely examination and treatment.