What Are the Treatments for Polycystic Kidney Disease

With the development of medical technology, more and more treatments occur to help Polycystic Kidney Disease patients. For different individual with PKD, they may adopt different treatment. However, what are the differences between these treatments and which is a better one?

1. Some oral medicines: In many cases, Polycystic Kidney Disease are prescribed some oral medicines to control symptoms and then wait for dialysis or transplant. As a matter of fact, these medicines are only effective in alleviating symptoms and fail to avoid kidney failure. Therefore, it PKD patients want to live far away from dialysis and kidney transplant, they need to find another treatment.

2. Chinese medicines: Recent years, Chinese medicines have been adopted by more and more patients to control Polycystic Kidney Disease. Chinese medicines take natural herbs as material, so they cause no side effects. It is a natural remedy for Polycystic Kidney Disease, but it needs a longer time to show treatment effects compared with some western oral medicines.

3. Surgical Treatment: Surgical treatment is generally used when kidney cyst becomes very large. These large cyst oppress surrounding renal tissues and therefore make them unable to work. As a consequence of this, kidney function decreases and various symptoms like back pain, blood urine, anemia and fatigue appear gradually.

Surgical treatment cut off big cyst from kidney and we can see obvious treatment effects after it. However, unfortunately, surgical treatment fail to deal with these small cysts and once big cysts are removed, these cysts become large quickly. Therefore, if Polycystic Kidney Disease patients adopt surgical treatment, they need to do surgery regularly.

4. Immunotherapy: Immunotherapy is a new treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease that combines Chinese medicines and western medicines. Western medicines show quick and obvious treatment effects in controlling symptoms. Symptoms of PKD occurs because of kidney damages, and they accelerate Polycystic Kidney Disease; therefore, it is necessary to control these symptoms. However, if Polycystic Kidney Disease patients want to avoid kidney failure, it is far from enough for them to just control symptoms and they also need to prevent further kidney damages. Chinese medicines have been proven to be effective in shrinking kidney cysts. As long as cyst in kidney is shrunk, no new kidney damages are caused. Also, Chinese medicines can activate damaged renal tissues and make them work again. In this way, not only kidney failure can be prevented, kidney function can be recovered to some extent. Therefore, so far Immunotherapy is the most preferable treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Different treatment focuses on different point while treating Polycystic Kidney Disease. For PKD patients, if they really want to receive a satisfactory results, they must adopt an overall treatment which can help to solve problem from the root. Only in this way, can they achieve their purpose of stopping Polycystic Kidney Disease.