Acute kidney infection characterized by a sudden onset, the rise in body temperature, increasing intoxication and exsicosis. Kidney infection usually begins with severe, often unilateral pain on the lateral surface of the back below the costal arch. In some cases, pain may be localized in one of the flanks of the lower abdomen and to give (irradiate) in the groin. One or both kidneys may be enlarged and painful, the pain usually occurs in the lumbar spine on the affected side. Sometimes cramps abdominal muscles. A person may experience episodes of intense pain (renal colic), caused by spasms of one of the urethras. Cramps occur as from inflammation caused by infection, and from a strong stimulus for the passage of kidney stones.
The pain is often combined with fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, which does not bring relief. About a third of people with the disease and symptoms of kidney infection in the lower part of the urinary tract, including frequent and painful urination (called dysuria). When urination allocated turbid urine (in the presence of blood in it may acquire a reddish tint) with a sharp foul odor.
Chronic kidney infection differs of unclear clinical picture. In some cases the process takes a chronic course with no prior acute onset. The main kidney infection symptoms are chronic intoxication, delayed addition of body weight, pale skin, fatigue. Chronic renal disease occurs only in people who have any predisposing cause – full or partial occlusion (obstruction) of urinary tract, the large stones in the kidneys or the reverse current of urine from the bladder to the urethras in young children. Chronic renal disease may eventually damage the kidneys, to the extent that there is renal insufficiency.
In children, kidney infection symptoms are often mild and difficult to recognize. Prolonged inflammation of the pain may be vague, fever – is periodic or not occur at all. Older children may complain of pain in the lumbar region, but usually the children are not clearly localize the pain and complained of “abdominal pain”.
The most common symptoms of kidney infection are changes in urine – it becomes turbid due to leukocytes, protein, bacteria.
Thus, kidney infection symptoms may include:
- Disease begins acutely; there is high (up to 40 gr. C) temperature (fever), chills, heavy pot;
- Pain in the lumbar region, on the side of the affected kidney – stress the anterior abdominal wall, the sharp pain in the costovertebral angle;
- Malaise, thirst, dysuria or thamuria;
- Acceding headache, nausea, vomiting indicate a rapidly growing intoxication;
- Marked neutrophilic leukocytosis, aneozinofiliya, pyuria with moderate proteinuria and hematuria
- One or both kidneys may increase and become painful;
- Approximately 1 / 3 of people with kidney infection also experience symptoms of inflammation of the bladder (cystitis) – more frequent and painful urination.
Urologists rightly believe that the most powerful and a vital natural filter is our kidney. Weighing in at just about 200 grams each one, they filter about a ton of blood, purifying it of harmful impurities from the body and putting more than fifty tons of unnecessary fluid. At the slightest organism’s infection first line of attack is the kidney, trying to withdraw away uninvited guests. This is a very complex biological process, which involved the brain and spinal cord. Unfortunately, we are so often sick of cold and angina, dental caries and flu, that the kidneys are simply overwhelmed such our attitude to the health and sometimes ill too. After all, their work can compare with the doctor in the infectious hospital: the slightest mistake and the doctor himself need help.
The fact is that in different inflammatory processes, 70-80% of the bacteria enter through the blood into the kidneys. And if in the urinary system, there was the slightest failure, the kidneys at risk to “poison” of the slag and sick. Sometimes it happens quite often. To date, cystitis (inflammation of the bladder) and pyelonephritis (inflammation of the kidney and renal pelvis) are the most common diseases. Kidney infection affects children and adults, men and women. But still women affected more frequently than others. And this is connected with the peculiarities of anatomical structure. The length of the urethra (urinary canal) in men about 20 centimeters, in women only 2,5. The proximity of the urethra to the vagina and anus makes urinary tract more susceptible to infections. Therefore, statistics show that every woman at least once in life infected cystitis.
We are all, without exception, catching cold, temperature, sneezing and coughing, but that does not mean that each of us in the regular spring and autumn can catch the kidney infection. And most likely it will not happen if you are not at risk group. The more chances to get infected with kidney infection (pyelonephritis, cystitis, urethritis – inflammation of the urethra) have:
• Pregnant women when the fetus compresses the bladder and disrupts the normal circulation.
• Venous congestion of blood causes kidney infection;
• Young wives, when in frequent sexual intercourse occurs infringement urinary organs;
• Women with gynecological diseases, as well as elderly women when hormonal balance is disturbed;
• Fans of different diets, when the “grown thin” fat layer keeps kidney rather bad and thus occurs omission (nefroproz);
• Post-surgical patients requiring deduction of urine through the catheter, which is the source of kidney infection;
• People prone to infectious diseases (influenza, tonsillitis, acute respiratory disease) and dental caries;
• Men with inflammation of the prostate;
• People with a violation of the locomotor system;
• People leading a sedentary lifestyle, which violated phosphorus-calcium metabolism and it disrupts the kidneys;
