How Can Joint Pain In Patient With IgA Nephropathy Be Treated
For patients with IgA nephropathy, when their disease progresses into a certain stage, patient can have many symptoms, among which joint pain may also appear.
Why patient with IgA nephropathy has joint pain?
IgA nephropathy can damage patient’s kidney function gradually, and when patient’s kidney function is not able to keep his body health, it will cause patient to have many health problems.
A major cause of joint pain is high uric acid in patient’s blood, and that will form urate crystal that will accumulate in patient’s joints, which will cause patient to have joint pain. Besides, when patient is in the late stage of IgA nephropathy, many factors can cause patient to have bone diseases, which is also known as renal osteopathy. And renal osteopathy can cause patient to have bone pain, which often appears in the joints that needs to bear lots of body weight, like knees, hip joints, etc.
How can joint pain in patient with IgA nephropathy be treated?
Many reasons can cause patient to have renal osteopathy, like the metabolic imbalance of phosphorus and calcium, hyperfunction of parathyroid gland, the shortage of vitamin D, etc.
So, to treat joint pain caused by renal osteopathy, the imbalance of phosphorus and calcium should be corrected. This can be achieved by reducing the intake of phosphorus in patient’s diet, and taking phosphate binder is also an effective way to reach that goal. And increasing the intake of calcium and vitamin D is another useful way. The hyperfunction of parathyroid gland should also be corrected, and if necessary, the sthenic parathyroid glad can be cut off.
While if patient joint pain is caused by high uric acid, except for taking medicines, patient should also reduce the foods intake that contain high purine, which is the main source of uric acid.
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