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Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is an inherited kidney disease in which multiple kidney cysts grow on kidneys. With time going on, kidney cyst will do some damages on your kidneys. So it requires timely treatment. Well, how to stop its growth and shrink kidney cyst?
PKD and kidney damage
Kidney cyst can do some harm to your kidney. One is that it can oppress your kidney, decreasing the blood flow, leading to high blood pressure, reducing the original kidney cells. Gradually, your renal function will decline. The symptoms will be obvious such as high creatinine, high blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and uric acid, etc. On the other side, the cysts will pull kidney nerves, causing back pain.
Cause of PKD
Why will you get this disease? Generally, PKD is a family disease. If there is nobody in your family who have this disease, it is your own gene problem. In addition, the internal environment of your kidney is not good, then you have low immunity to fight against the toxins. Moreover, because of the oppression of cysts, your kidney cannot receive enough blood and oxygen, leading to renal ischemia and hypoxia. Therefore, if your internal environment of kidney can be improved, kidney cyst can also be controlled.
The treatment of PKD
As for the treatment of PKD, one is western medicine, and you can choose decortication treatment. It can remove the big cysts soon, but it can do nothing to the small. What’s worse, it may hurt the renal parenchyma.
On the other hand, you can try conservative treatment, called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. This therapy can increase the permeability of the capsule wall, stop the cysts growing promote the reabsorption of cystic fluid. So it is a thorough treatment.
In our hospital, we also have other Chinese medicine therapies such as traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese herbal full bath, Chinese herbal foot bath, Mai Kang Mixture and Enema therapy, etc. If you want to learn more, you can leave us a message to kidneycares@hotmail.com or consult our online doctor directly.
