{"id":134,"date":"2020-02-19T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthissues24.co.za\/?p=134"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:33:08","slug":"when-should-i-go-to-the-er-for-kidney-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/when-should-i-go-to-the-er-for-kidney-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"When should I go to the ER for kidney pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Seek emergency care if you develop sudden, severe\u00a0<strong>kidney pain<\/strong>, with or without blood in your urine.<br><strong>Call your doctor for a same-day appointment if:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>You have constant, dull, one-sided pain in your back or side.<\/li><li>You have fever, body aches and fatigue.<\/li><li>You&#8217;ve had a recent urinary tract infection.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3>Causes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible causes of kidney pain include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Bleeding in the kidney (hemorrhage)<\/li><li>Blood clots in kidney veins (renal vein thrombosis)<\/li><li>Hydronephrosis (kidney swelling due to a backup of urine)<\/li><li>Kidney cancer\u00a0or a kidney tumor<\/li><li>Kidney cysts\u00a0(enlargement or rupture)<\/li><li>Kidney infection\u00a0(pyelonephritis)<\/li><li>Kidney stones<\/li><li>Polycystic kidney disease<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidney stones are likely to cause pain only when they start to move out of the kidney. Also, it&#8217;s possible to have one of these conditions, particularly most kidney cancers, and not have kidney pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seek emergency care if you develop sudden, severe\u00a0kidney pain, with or without blood in your urine.Call your doctor for a same-day appointment if: You have constant, dull, one-sided pain in your back or side. You have fever, body aches and fatigue. You&#8217;ve had a recent urinary tract infection. Causes Possible causes of kidney pain include:\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/when-should-i-go-to-the-er-for-kidney-pain\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionline24.co.za\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}