Consult your doctor
Back pain is not always grounds for assuming that this is due to kidney disease. The first symptoms may be a dysfunction of urination, the presence in the urine of impurities, sand, turbidity or blood.
You will be given a full medical examination to the results to make an accurate diagnosis. As the study used diagnostic ultrasound, magnetic resonance or computed tomography. Initial diagnosis is undertaken by an urologist. If necessary, the patient referred to a nephrologist or oncologist.
For the correct diagnosis of the doctor prescribes the General analysis of blood which shows the presence of inflammation. Biochemical analysis helps to determine the concentration of urea, the presence of antibodies antistreptolysin O (ASLO). In addition, there is an obligatory urine test. Biopsy and excretory urography is prescribed only in case of emergency.
Treatment of kidney
On the basis of results of complex medical examination, the doctor will make the diagnosis and prescribe the necessary treatment. Pyelonephritis is antibiotic treatment, the patient is recommended to observe nizkosoleva diet, drink chamomile teas, renal fees.
Urolithiasis is treated with a special diet. The diet depends on the type of stones. While phosphate deposits are prohibited dairy products, while uric acid and calcium oxalate stones are the basis of the diet should be dairy and dairy products.
Glomerulonephritis prescribed antihypertensive drugs and corticosteroids.
If diagnosed in renal failure, the main therapy used a dialysis or transplantation of kidneys.
To treat kidney disease yourself strictly contraindicated, because regardless of the symptoms the diagnosis may be different, as the therapies. Only a doctor can prescribe medications or other treatments that will help to cope with the problem and avoid serious complications.
