How to Prevent Deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of kidney disorder marked by fluid-filled cyst in kidney. With the increase of kidney cyst and kidney cyst size, kidney function decreases and finally lead to kidney failure. Therefore, preventing deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease is very important for patients to avoid kidney failure. However, how to prevent deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease at all?

Firstly, we need to understand Polycystic Kidney Disease progresses as more and more renal tissues are damaged because of the great oppressing from surrounding kidney cyst. Kidney cyst enlarges over time and as they need to take up large space, they have to oppress surrounding renal tissues and make them unable in getting enough oxygen and nutrition. When this condition lasts a longer time, these kidney tissues become necrotic and lose their function. Therefore, the best method to prevent deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease is to protect residual kidney tissues.

We know kidney tissues are damaged by the enlarged kidney cyst and the bigger the kidney cyst is, the more kidney tissues are damaged. In this light, if we want to protect residual renal tissues, we must shrink kidney cyst.

Surgery is a direct medical method which can help to cut off cyst from kidney. However, as Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney problem marked by increasing cysts. It is not possible to cut off all the cysts. Besides, clinical experiments show when big cyst is removed, small cyst become large quickly within a short time. Therefore, surgery is not a long-term solution at all.

Chinese medicine is composed of herbs, animal, and mineral substances which are proven to have medical functions. It has history more than 5000 years and some of them show great treatment effects in shrinking kidney cyst. Chinese medicines shrink kidney cyst through making pressure differences. It is widely known that fluid flow toward the side with low pressure, so when pressure inside the cyst is lower than that inside the cyst, fluids ooze out easily. In Polycystic Kidney Disease, kidney cyst enlarges due to increased fluid in the cyst, so as long as we reduce cyst in kidney, kidney cyst become smaller.

Shrinking kidney cyst is one of the methods that we protect residual kidney tissues and as long as we achieve our purpose, deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease is stopped effectively.