Renal colic in children, adults, pregnant: symptoms, causes, complications. How to treat kidney colic with drugs and folk remedies?

About the causes and symptoms of renal colic, acute care and ways to relieve pain.

People who have had an attack of kidney colic at least once will never forget it. Pain, which appeared pointwise in the back of the side or lower abdomen, spreads through the body, captures the person entirely.

They say that it can be compared with that experienced by a woman giving birth. Fortunately, the state itself is rarely dangerous to life, which can not be said about the diseases that caused it.

Syndrome of renal colic

Usually, renal colic syndrome manifests itself in people whose ureters become impassable due to stumps in them( stones) or in view of some other pathology.

In renal colic, a person experiences, in the literal sense, an unbearable pain, from which there is nowhere to go.

In renal colic, a person begins to feel acute, cutting, paroxysmal pain when:

• a stone of considerable size or with a rough surface that previously freely "drifted" in the kidney, begins to move along the urinary tract, clogging the ureter, putting pressure on the kidneypelvis and disrupting blood circulation in the kidney
• in the smooth muscles of the ureter, a spasm arises when it is impossible to pass the urine
• in the renal pelvis, and the pressure increasesstretching of the innervated organ, which further aggravates the pain

Patients are experiencing severe pain, which can partially have different localization and manifest:

• in the lower back( if the stone has turned to the renal pelvis or went into the ureter)
• in the groin( occlusion in the ureter)
• in the abdomenand in the area of ​​the rectum, then the patient feels the need to empty, which gives painful pain

IMPORTANT: Even if the patient with renal colic takes a variety of poses, even relaxation, painThe

Symptoms of renal colic

In renal colic, the patient feels:

• sharp cramping pain that starts suddenly in the absence of obvious predisposing factors
• pain does not go away for a long time
• urge to urinate and labor urination
  nausea and vomiting
• increase in temperature to 37 or more

Nausea and fever often accompany pain syndrome.

The urine of the patient often becomes turbid, in it the particles of blood and / or clots-concrements are visualized.

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What causes renal colic?

Renal colic is not an independent disease. The pathological condition is a consequence of another pathology, in 90% of cases - urolithiasis.

Concrements in the kidneys that have moved and clogged the ducts are the main cause of colic.

IMPORTANT: Urolithiasis is characterized by the formation of concretions in the urinary tract( in simple language - stones).Doctors still can not say exactly why they appear. The trigger mechanism can be a deficit or surplus in the body of vitamin D, age, sex, lifestyle, food errors, ecology, working conditions and heredity. Individual predisposition is also possible in the form of anatomical impairment of kidney function and all other urinary tract

Other causes of renal colic are:

• acute and chronic kidney disease such as pyelonephritis, in which the renal pelvis can become inflamed and clogged with a clot of mucus or pus.
• tuberculosis and kidney cancer

In addition to internal physiological factors, it is necessary to distinguish an external impact factor, such as a kidney trauma, due to which the urinary tractthe paths turn out to be compressed, or they become obstructed( clogged) by blood clots.

IMPORTANT: Some people have a pathology - a wandering( or omitted) kidney, which can lead to an ureteral bend during movements, and, as a result, to a renal colic.

Kidney is another possible cause of colic.

First aid for renal colic

First aid for renal colic should be given only after other pathology is excluded( surgical, urological, neuralgic, etc.) with similar symptoms:

• acute appendicitis
• acute pancreatitis
• cholecystitis
• cystitis
• gastric ulcer
• Acute intestinal obstruction
• radiculitis
• intercostal neuralgia

It is necessary that the doctor diagnoses on the basis of examination, anamnesis and laboratory tests. Until then, no help to a person with a pain syndrome is better not to provide, because if you do not differentiate colic from other diseases, you can only do harm. A hot-air bottle warmer will help reduce pain.

If the patient has this already diagnosed pathology, and the attack repeats, then the first aid to such a patient will be:

1. Warm bath or warmer, or something warm at the waist( spasm will be less, concrements can come out).
   But! Warmer and heat are contraindicated in other diseases with a similar manifestation and symptoms. If the attack happened for the first time, wait for the doctor and do nothing without his recommendations
2. Spasmolytic and pain-relieving drugs( spazmolgon, no-sppa, baralgetas, papaverine with analgin) - remove the spasm of the smooth muscles of the ureter

When the patient visits the toilet,whether the stone came out. To do this, it is advisable to use a toilet bowl or any other vessel, not a toilet, and to monitor the state of urine.
If the stones are small, up to 5 mm in diameter, then they go out by themselves. After the stone clogged the duct, it leaves, it becomes much easier for the patient, although a slight dull pain in the lower back can still remain for some time.

During colic, stones can be excreted along with urine.

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Renal colic in children

Unfortunately, renal colic can occur in children. Most often this problem overtakes school-age children.
The child experiences severe pain in the navel, he is restless and cries. The pain is a spasm that lasts for 20 minutes.
Vomiting occurs and the temperature rises to subfebrile.

If an episode of kidney colic occurs in a child, you need to urgently call a doctor.

IMPORTANT: If this problem has overtaken the child for the first time, the parents must necessarily call a doctor to exclude acute surgical pathology or intestinal poisoning.

With the established diagnosis and with a repeated attack, it is necessary to give the child an antispasmodic and analgesic remelgin. The drug is used intramuscularly and intravenously.

Renal colic in pregnant women

• Unfortunately, pregnant women are at risk with renal colic syndrome and with other kidney problems
• The kidneys of a pregnant woman should be carefully monitored. For this, including, there is a regular, bi-weekly urine test, which the pregnant woman must take before the next visit to the gynecologist.
  Third trimester of pregnancy is especially important
• If a kidney colic occurs, the pregnant woman is subject to emergency hospitalization, as there is a risk of premature birth.

Renal colic in pregnant women can provoke premature birth.

How to treat kidney colic with drugs?

If there is absolute certainty that it is the renal colic, then take:

• greater than usual amount of water( warm) to push the stone
• antispasmodics
• medications prescribed by the doctor in order to stimulate the passage of the stone

Folk Remedies for Renalcolic

It will not be about the remedies that will relieve an attack of acute hepatic colic, but about those folk remedies that will help to avoid the appearance of such an attack. Especially important are such advice to people with an established diagnosis of urolithiasis. After all, seizures of colic can recur from them more than once, but occur repeatedly and repeatedly.

Onions with honey help with colic.

With the problems with excretory system will help to cope with the usual onions and carrots, used regularly.

1. So, you need to drink carrot juice or eat grated carrot in a volume of 200 ml( g) after each meal
2. Onion juice, mixed with honey, take a teaspoon for 20 minutes before eating

Medicinal herbs:

• infusions of chamomile
• immortelle
• motherwort

The infusion is prepared according to a prescription written on drugstore packaging, and is taken half a glass half an hour before meals.

Also helps to collect: sage + chamomile + cent.
Take all the ingredients in a teaspoon, pour boiling water and insist.
Take a teaspoonful after 2 - 3 hours.

Diet is an effective way of preventing renal colic and various diseases that caused it.

An important means of preventing renal colic is a diet.
People with urolithiasis should reduce the intake of salt, smoked foods, marinades, fatty foods, and eat dietary low-fat and mild foods.

Complications after renal colic

Renal colic and its underlying cause - urolithiasis - can be complicated and lead to such serious diseases as:

• Acute pyelonephritis
• urosepsis
• bacteremia shock
• and other severe diseases

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