Is Kidney Shrinkage Reversible

Not a few kidney patients have kidney shrinkage, which usually results from ischemia and anoxia. When your kidneys are smaller than the normal size, they can not play their role to the most and then you will have symptoms associated with kidney disease, such as high blood pressure, proteinuria and so on. Is kidney shrinkage reversible? If you have shrunk kidneys, you may be interested in this topic.

Kidney shrinkage can be primary or secondary. If your kidneys are shrunken, you should talk with your doctor to find out the underlying causes and then suit the remedy to the case. Generally speaking, the following Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapies can help you prevent further kidney damage and improve kidney function.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

Compared with those oral medicine, this therapy reduces the stimulation to stomach, because it is to infiltrate the micronized herbs into the kidneys with the help of osmosis devices. Because the effective ingredients of herbs can reach the nidus directly, they take effect quickly. It can dilate blood vessels and block blood clotting to increase blood flow into the kidneys so as to improve ischemia and anoxia. It can also inhibit kidney inflammation and stop kidney fibrosis so as to protect your kidneys from being damaged further.

Medicated Bath

This therapy is also a kind of external therapy. It is to put yourself or your feet into the diluted medicated soup. And then some waste products can be passed out of your body with sweat. It can also increase your urine output so as to flush out the waste products. Moreover, it can speed up blood circulation.

Mai Kang Mixture

This is a Chinese patent medicine. It can strengthen your immune system. It can also lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol level and control blood sugar level so as to provide a good blood environment for kidney self-healing.

Other alternative therapies

There is also circle therapy, enema therapy, steam therapy, acupuncture, moxibustion and various medical soup and so on for patients with kidney shrinkage.

In order to achieve a good therapeutic effect, we usually combine several of them together. If you would like a personalized treatment plan to reverse kidney shrinkage, please feel free to contact online doctor.