Can I Get Rid Of Blood Pressure Drugs With PKD

PKD patients often have high blood pressure and it will become worse as more renal cysts form in the kidneys and with the continuous cyst growth. The multiple renal cysts in the kidneys will oppress and replace normal renal tissues, resulting in changes of renal structure and loss of renal functions.

Even when kidney functions are still normal, patients will have high blood pressure because these renal cysts will cause high pressure, high perfusion and high filtration in the kidneys. When renal functions are affected, the kidney’s ability to regulate blood pressure will be affected and high blood pressure will become more serious.

Since high blood pressure is also one major risk factor that can promote the deterioration of kidney functions for PKD patients. And it has been found that well control of high blood pressure can help slow down PKD progression, lower case fatality rate, therefore patients will need to have some blood pressure drugs such as ACEI and ARB drugs to help control their high blood pressure and protect kidney functions.

However, it is also found that long term use of blood pressure drugs can cause many side effects to the patients. Also renal damages caused by these drugs have been reported. Since there is at present no cure for PKD, patients have to take blood pressure drugs for the rest of their life. Therefore many PKD patients suffering from high blood pressure want to know if there is any natural remedies that can help control high blood pressure without taking these drugs.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external application of herbal medicines that can help shrink renal cyst and prevent further formation and enlargement of more cyst by inhibiting the secretion of cyst fluids by the epithelial cells on the cyst wall. Since it can help eliminate blood stasis, promote blood circulation, repair damaged renal tissues and improve renal functions, high blood pressure will be lowered naturally after the application.

Of cause patients can not expect to stop blood pressure drugs suddenly, it requires a treatment course for Chinese medicines to take effects to repair renal damages and reduce high blood pressure. But patients can gradually reduce the dosage of these drugs and in the end get rid of them and their side effects.