Between 1 and 5 percent of the population in countries from the first world had been through a nephritic colic. It’s known as one the most painful episodes a person can go through, and some people say that it can be even more painful than childbirth, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Not everyone has the same symptoms, neither the same amount of pain in the process. Most of the time with good hydration, and a base of patience and pain killers the episodes can fade in a couple of days.
A nephritic colic is an abdominal pain that is fundamentally high, it starts at the height of the abdominal region and it can reach the genitals. It is characterized for a pain that contracts and loosens, more than it intenses and relaxes itself. It is called a colic because it raises in intensity and it relaxes as well, it’s not continuous, points Mercedes Salgueira, the head of nephrology in the Virgen De La Macarena Hospital in Sevilla.
Salguera, who is also the head of finance of the Spanish Nephrology Society, explains that the pain starts from the apparition of kidney stones or residues in the urinary excretory system, in the track that goes from the kidney to the bladder and urethra, which is the track where the urine is expelled, the pain will be found in function of where this dilation is located, as a consequence of these stones or residues.
Any person can suffer from nephritic colic. Although, like with any other pathology there’s a kind of people that have more chances to be affected by this, like the ones that already have a history with kidney stones or if some sibling had the same symptoms or suffers from the condition because sometimes they are linked to some hereditary disorders. Patients who suffer from gout or the ones that consume medication that boosts the secretion of uric acid, and the ones that have an intestinal pathology linked to diarrhea, because in this disposition you can lose a significant amount of ions in your urine, a factor that favours the production of stones or residues.
At the same time, Selguera points that the people once submitted to short colon surgery or bariatric surgery, and patients with urinary infections produced by germs or stones have a bigger chance to suffer from kidney stones,as well as the diabetic, hypertensive and obese patients also the people that has a low liquid consumption and the ones that do intense physical exercise as marathon runners have a bigger chance too.
Those are people with a kind of predisposition but still, anyone can suffer from nephritic colic, because the functioning of the renal system hasn’t been studied, and one can have an alteration of the ion managing in a renal level, which makes the stones be produced, this occurs because the urine is a fluid.
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