Polycystic Kidney Disease Treatment Options

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disease and there is no cure or treatment that will stop the cysts from growing. However, there are treatments available to decrease your symptoms and possibly slow the rate of kidney damage. Controlling high blood pressure with medications, diet, and exercise can slow the progression to kidney failure. Pain can be alleviated with over-the-counter or prescription medications. Prompt treatment of urinary tract infections with antibiotics helps prevent further damage to the kidneys due to the infections. When kidney failure occurs, dialysis or a kidney transplant may be needed for survival.
So how to treat Polycystic kidney disease ?
General treatment
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should control protein intake in their diet and drink the water more than 3000ml. According to the patient’s condition, they can do appropriate exercise but not drastic exercise.
Surgery Treatment for PKD
Surgical operations can relieve the pressure from large cysts on kidneys. But when the pressure from large cysts is reduced, small cysts can be in a more relax environment with less pressure, which make these small cysts grow rapidly, compressing renal parenchyma for another time. Besides, operation trauma is also a great damage to kidneys.
When single cyst is larger than 4cm, operation is usually considered. Patients who suffer from early and middle stage Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) can choose cyst decortication which can prevent remained healthy nephron from being damaged further and relieve renal ischemia condition. By this way, part nephron can be recovered, which delays the development of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). But for patients suffering from end stage Polycystic Kidney Disease, this operation can play very little role. Therefore, if patients suffer from rapidly developing illness condition and obvious symptoms with reclined renal function and continuous High Blood Pressure, they should accept operation as early as possible. Bilateral operations should have duration of 3 to 6 months.
Controlling high blood pressure For PKD
Controlling high blood pressure may delay the progression of polycystic kidney disease and slow further kidney damage. Combining a low-sodium, low-fat diet that's moderate in protein and calorie content with not smoking, increasing exercise and reducing stress may help control high blood pressure.
However, medications are usually needed to control high blood pressure. Medications called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may be used to control high blood pressure in people with polycystic kidney disease, though more than one drug may be necessary for good blood pressure control.
Chinese Midicine Treatment For PKD
Micro-Chinese Medicine can dilate the renal blood vessels, improve blood circulation, enhance the permeability of renal blood vessels, and reverse pressure difference between liquid in the cysts and liquid in the blood vessels out of the cysts, so as to make the liquid pass with the blood circulation gradually and excrete from body through blood circulation. Therefore, the cysts will contract and diminish at last.
Second, the blood vessels have been dilated, thus, the state of ischemia and anoxia around cysts will be improved, too. So, the metabolic function of on the cysts wall will recover, making the abnormal excretion of cystic liquid disappear, so as to reduce the produce of cystic liquid.
Third, the mciro-Chinese Medicine have effect of anti-inflammation, which can kill the epithelial cells, inhibit the inflammation reaction caused by intoxicating factor in the cystic epit dopt Micro-Chinese Medicine osmotherapy for you. helial cells, stop the excretion of cystic liquid, and make cyst and cystic blood vessel growth stop. At last the root cause of renal cyst is removed, then, the cyst will disappear gradually, without reoccurrence.