Back pain due to kidney infection

Back pain or kidney infection : find using symptoms

It is obvious that you may start worrying when you have back pain. But are you worried that the cause of the backpain could be a kidney infection? You can clearly tell the difference using signs or symptoms in your body. Let's first see how kidney infection can cause the back pain.

You can feel the pain in flank area, on your back, in the sides of the spine and above the hips. Pain caused by kidney is generally severe and it occurs in waves.

Common Symptoms and Causes of Kidney Pain

Kidney Stones :

When a stone gets lodged in the ureter, urine flow gets blocked. and urine starts flowing back up in the kidney, which causes the kidney to enlarge and causes the pain.

Kidney infection (pyelonephritis):

Pain caused by kidney infection is result of infection and inflammation in the kidney tissue. Due to this infection, kidney swells and stretches the pain sensitive capsule surrounding the kidney. This leads to a sharp aching pain.

How to distinguish between pain caused by kidney infection and lower back pain :

Here are listed the signs, symptoms and differences that you can use to differentiate between kidney infection pain and back pain.

Doctors suggest to the patients having back pain and having history of kidney infection, that they should be tested for a possible kidney problem as they are prone to these infections.