How to Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease

How to Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease
For polycystic kidney disease patients, their cysts can grow up gradually, and then the patient's kidneys will oppress, destroy kidney function in patients, since patients will eventually destroy the kidney cysts into kidney failure.

However, polycystic kidney disease is a genetic disease, it is can not be cured. At the same time the patient's cysts develop slowly, symptoms usually appear in middle-aged period, usually again after ten years of development before they may enter kidney failure. Therefore, in the process, receiving effective treatment to slow the progression of the disease in patients is very important to protect patient health.

In the course of treatment, there are some aspects that need to be very aware of.

1. Control blood pressure:

Good control of blood pressure is very important for patients with polycystic kidney disease, polycystic kidney disease for patients because they will be able to appear in the early symptoms of hypertension. And high blood pressure can clearly accelerate renal cyst growth rate, and thus will shorten the time patients enter renal failure.

2. To avoid infection:

Infection is worse in patients with kidney disease is a very common and very obvious reasons. So for polycystic kidney disease patients, they also need to pay attention to in their daily lives to avoid infection, as in cold weather, when to keep warm, to avoid the cold.

3. Avoid nephrotoxic drugs:

Nephrotoxic drugs aggravate renal damage in patients with polycystic kidney disease, thereby increasing the speed of kidney failure patients entered. Therefore, in the course of patient treatment, pay attention to the use of some drugs can cause kidney damage, such as antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic agents, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics, anesthetics, various angiographic agent.

4. Chinese medicine reduce kidney cyst

For polycystic kidney disease patients, the use of Chinese shrink renal cysts would be a good choice. Most treatment of polycystic kidney disease are now using Western medicine approach, but Western medicine treatment of polycystic kidney disease is not a good choice. Because in order to alleviate the damage caused by renal cysts, Western medicine is on the way through surgery to shrink cysts. This treatment is not only big damage to the body, and will soon relapse.

But with Chinese medicine treatment of polycystic kidney disease is has its obvious advantages, because the Chinese government through the inner extraterritorial combination, can be very effective to increase the permeability of cyst wall, and through the action of the pressure difference cyst fluid is discharged and out of the body.