Is Tramadol Safe for Renal Disease Patient

Tramadol is one common painkiller used for relieving the moderate or severe pain, while renal disease patients may present kidney pain, headache, leg pain, bone pain and so on. In this case, they must want to find one type of painkiller to alleviate their pain. Then, is tramadol safe for kidney disease patients?

Renal disease patients are always required to pay attention to their medicines, because taking any medicine which has renal toxicity may induce acute kidney failure easily. Many painkillers like aspirin may cause kidney damage, if patients take overdosage or have advanced kidney disease.

How about tramadol? Generally speaking, tramadol is preferred for moderate pain in chronic kidney disease patients, because no research has proven this medicine can be nephrotoxic directly. Nevertheless, it must be noted that patients should reduce their dosage, when their glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is less than 30ml/min/1.73m2.

The active metabolite of tramadol is made in the liver and excreted by kidneys, so it may burden the impaired kidneys for kidney patients. From this point, patients should tell the doctor that they have kidney disease, before taking this drug. (To learn the dosage of tramadol you can take, consult the doctor online, so they can give you the answer depending on your illness condition.)

Here, we should point out any type of painkillers is unable for manage kidney patients’ pain, let alone severe pain, from the root, because they can do nothing to deal with the root cause. If you want to get rid of your kidney pain, headache or pain in other areas, you should detect the underlying cause. Then, according to the cause, you can determine what treatments to take, with doctor’s guidance.

Remember that never take painkillers without doctor’s guidance. Otherwise, you may suffer from life-threatening problems.

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