Treatment Of Joint Pain For Patient With Kidney Disease
Patients with kidney disease can have many symptoms, and a common symptom in their body is joint pain.
Why patient has joint pain?
Joint pain in patient is caused by two major reasons. One is high uric acid in patient’s blood, and the other is renal osteopathy.
Renal osteopathy can be caused by many reasons. A major cause is the imbalance of phosphorus and calcium in patient’s blood, which often cause patient has the shortage of calcium. Renal osteopathy may also be caused by the hypertension of parathyroid gland, and the shortage of vitamin D is also a common cause.
While no matter joint pain in patient with kidney disease is caused by renal osteopathy or high uric acid, the root cause of it is patient’s severe kidney damage.
How can joint pain be treated?
If patient’s joint pain is caused by renal osteopathy, the imbalance of phosphorus and calcium should be corrected, which is the root cause of renal osteopathy. Patient should restrict his phosphorus intake in his diet, and increase the intake of calcium and vitamin D. Besides, to reduce the level of phosphorus in blood, taking phosphate binder will be an effective way to reach that purpose.
While if patient’s joint pain is caused by the accumulation of uric acid, except for taking medicines, patent’s kidney function should be improved, so the excess uric acid can be filtered out.
In fact, no matter joint pain is caused by uric acid or renal osteopathy, patient’s kidney function always needs to be improved, because this is the root cause of patient’s joint problem. To reach this purpose, Chinese medicine is recommended, because it is famous for its function in improving patient’s body function by treating patient’s disease systematically. And therapies like Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Hot Compress Therapy, Full Bath Therapy, etc, have been proved effective in improving patient’s kidney function.
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