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3 Treatments for Polycystic Kidney Disease

2012-10-17 10:15

Though polycystic kidney disease is hereditary and can not be cured at present, patients should not just wait passively without taking any actions. Positive and timely actions can help alleviate and control symptoms and complications and slow down the illness progression or the multiple continuously growing cysts will replace and damage the renal structure and functions leading to end stage renal failure.

Here are 3 treatment options:

1. Herbal therapy. Chinese medicines mainly adopt conservative treatments for PKD and use herbs to slow down the growth rate of the cyst or even shrink the cysts. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, PKD is the result of both internal and external factors. And that is why some people can go through their entire life without PKD affecting their normal life even though they carry the pathogenic gene while someone may develop obvious symptoms at their 30s to 50s and the illness will progress rapidly into renal failure. Chinese herbs can regulate and rectify the disorders and imbalances in the body.

2. Unroofing decompression. This surgery can alleviate the oppression of the cysts to the renal parenchyma and protect the remaining nephrons from further damages. The states of ischemia and hypoxia can be improved, part of renal functions can be recovered and the illness progression can be slowed down. However the surgery is not suitable for end stage PKD patients because the decompression will not have too much use since the patients will have severe renal damages, azotemia, high blood pressure, etc.

3. Renal replacement therapies---dialysis and kidney transplant. When PKD develops into end stage renal failure, patients may need dialysis and transplant to replace the functions of the failed kidneys---discharging waste products and maintaining the balances of water, electrolytes and acid-base.

However as we know that not everyone has the chance or can afford the transplant, therefore it is very important to treat the disease in the early stage so as to control the illness progression and avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.


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