Prostatitis and Kidney Pain, Any Relationships?
Prostatitis is an infection of the prostate gland in the male genitourinary system. Pathogen infection or non-infectious factors of the prostate leads to pelvic pain or discomfort, abnormal urination, sexual dysfunction and other clinical manifestations.
There are several symptoms of prostatitis:
First, urinary tract irritation, such as frequency of urination, urgency of urination and pain of urination, may be accompanied by inexhaustible urination and dribbling.
Second, there is a sense of pains around the prostate, including pain in the lower abdomen, pain in the inguinal area, pain in the perineum, radiation to the penis, testis, lumbosacral area and even pain in the lower back.
Third, the changes of sexual function are caused by prostatitis, such as premature ejaculation, impotence, low libido and so on.
Fourth, psychosomatic tiredness includes depression, depression, anxiety, and so on.
The patient that suffers from prostatitis often feels painful kidney, they doubt whether prostatitis cause kidney pain directly?
On the one hand, if patients suffer from acute bacterial prostatitis, it may cause pain in the renal area. Due to the influence of inflammation, regional chronic dull pain often occurs, and is often accompanied by fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, painful urination and other symptoms.
Prostatitis lesions will not directly cause symptoms, but patients may appear retrograde infection, therefore, it will cause pyelonephritis and appear renal pain. At the same time, there may be urinary tract irritation symptoms, such as urination frequency, urination urgency, pain in urination.
In this case, antibiotics are the most common way to treat acute prostatitis because they have a strong bactericidal ability, especially for acute bacterial prostatitis.
On the other hand, if patients suffer from chronic prostatitis, in generally, it does not cause kidney pain. But people still need treatment when chronic prostatitis is confirmed. And herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill is a better option. It can improve immunity, help accelerate the function recovery and reduce the probability of recurrence. It has an positive effect on chronic prostatitis. But be sure to stick with this method, or you stop it halfway, and you might lose all your effort.
Kidney pain may be related to prostatitis. What other factors is it related to?
Most renal pain is related to diseases, such as infection, stones, cysts and so on. However, after sitting for a long time or walking for a long time, you will also feel kidney acid and swelling pain.
For kidney pain caused by infection, bacteria can enter the kidney through blood from suppurative lesions in other parts, such as furuncle, pain, abscess, infected wound, upper respiratory tract infection, and infection of adjacent tissues of the kidney. Pyelonephritis is the main cause of renal pain caused by infection, mainly due to bacterial ascending infection around the anterior urethra and urethral orifice, infection in other parts (blood infection to the kidney and surrounding organs). And Kidney pain caused by cysts or stones can usually be diagnosed by urinary B-ultrasound.
In a word, prostatis may be related to kidney pain, but it can also be related to other factors. So, people should seek timely exam to find out the cause and take active treatment to avoid more complications.
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