Immunotherapy For Polycystic Kidney Disease

As a congenital and hereditary kidney disease, there is at present no cure for polycystic kidney disease, but patients can still live a normal life span with timely and proper treatment. Current treatment options for polycystic kidney disease include surgery, dialysis, kidney transplant, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy (external application of Chinese medicines) and Immunotherapy.

You may be unfamiliar with immunotherapy. To make it simple, it is the combination of Chinese therapy and Western therapy and it is effective at treating polycystic kidney disease and other renal cystic diseases. It can be adopted to treat both early stage and end stage PKD. It can shrink the renal cysts in PKD patients so as to prevent developing renal failure and avoid dialysis and kidney transplant. For those that have developed renal failure, immunotherapy can help purify the blood stream, alleviate symptoms, recover certain kidney functions and enhance patients’ immunity.

Immunotherapy mainly has the following curative effects on PKD.

Immunotherapy combines Chinese medicines and Western medicines. Western medicines have quick and obvious effects on alleviating symptoms such as urinary tract infection, high blood pressure, etc. Chinese medicines can solve the root problem and prevent recurrence of illness conditions. Active ingredients in Chinese medicines have overall shrinking effects on all the cysts in bilateral kidneys, weather it is large or small, located on the surface or deep in renal tissues. What is more, it can also inactivate epithelial cells on the cyst wall so as to prevent secretion of more cyst fluid and block cyst growth from the root.

One advantage of immunotherapy is that it can be used in the early stage of PKD even when patients do not develop any symptoms. Conventional surgeries such as cyst aspiration and decortication can only be applied to remove large and surface cysts; dialysis and kidney transplant is for end stage renal disease patients. Immunotherapy can be applied to patients of all stages.

Immunotherapy consists of 6 steps among which immune clearance will use several blood purification technologies to purify the blood system and so as to much relieve symptoms and discomforts for patients and provide a clean and favorable internal environment for the Chinese medicines and Western medicines to take effects. Immune regulation helps promote blood circulation, shrink renal cysts, repair renal damages and improve renal functions. Immune protection is the consolidation of immune regulation which aims at regulate immune disorder and enhance immunity so as to protect the kidneys from potential damages. Other steps include immune diagnosis, immune blocking, immune tolerance which can be applied according to patient’s specific illness conditions.