Today’s high speed is a headache, a stretch in the waist or pain of periods – people immediately take a pankiller tablet. Pain gets immediate relief, but do you know that eating painkillers can slowly spoil your kidney?
According to experts, excessive intake of painkillers for a long time affects the kidney function and can cause chronic kidney disease (CKD). This problem can be so serious that the situation can go to dialysis or kidney transplant.
How do painkillers affect the kidney?
1. Affects blood flow
Most painkillers-NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)-reduce blood flow in the kidney. This reduces the ability of the kidney to filter the blood and gradually the organ starts to damage.
2. Damage to Freight System
The kidney filters toxins and excess water out of the body and removes it. Repeated painkillers reduce glomerular filtration rate (GFR), causing toxins to accumulate in the body.
3. Threat of interstitial nephritis
Prolonged painkillers can lead to inflammatory disease of a kidney inflammatory disease called interstitial nephritis. The disease occurs in the beginning without symptoms, but gradually damages the kidney.
Which painkillers are the most dangerous?
Experts say that NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen, Diclofenac and Naproxen are the most harmful to the kidneys when drugs are prolonged.
If these drugs are taken regularly without doctor’s advice, it can gradually turn into acute kidney injury (AKI) and then chronic failure.
Which people are the most danger?
High blood pressure or diabetes patients
People with already kidney disease
In the elderly
People who take painkillers for more than 10 days a month
How to identify that kidney is affecting?
There may be some initial signs of or not, whether the kidney habit is being affected by the habit of painkillers:
Repeated feeling tired
Urine
Swelling of feet
Blood pressure
Taste of mouth
If such symptoms appear continuously, you should see a doctor immediately and should be checked by creatinine, urea, and GFR.
Expert advice
Nephrologist says:
“Pressing pain is not a cure. Painkiller only suppress the symptoms, not the reason. If any pain is continuously, it is necessary to check the reason behind it. Painkiller consumption for a long time can permanently damage the kidney.”
What to do?
Be sure to consult a doctor before taking painkillers
Try alternative treatment of pain such as hot enthusiasts, light stretching, or Ayurvedic remedies
If it is mandatory to take painkillers, increase the amount of water
Keep conducting kidney function test from time to time
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