What Should PKD Patients Pay Attention with treatment

What Should PKD Patients Pay Attention with treatment


Polycystic kidney disease should pay attention to what For polycystic kidney disease patients, their cysts can gradually grow up, and then will oppress the patient's kidney, destruction of patients with renal function, and ultimately patients because of cyst damage to the kidney into the kidney Failure.

However, polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary disease, it can not be cured. At the same time the slow development of patients with cysts, the general will appear in the young and middle-aged symptoms, generally after more than 10 years of development before they may enter renal failure. Therefore, in this process, to receive effective treatment for delaying the progression of the patient, to protect the health of patients is very important.

In the course of treatment, there are some aspects that are very much in need of attention.

1. Control of blood pressure:

Control of blood pressure is very important for patients with polycystic kidney disease, because for polycystic kidney disease patients, they will be able to appear early in the symptoms of hypertension. Hypertension can significantly accelerate the growth of patients with renal cysts, and thus will shorten the time of patients to enter renal failure.

2. To avoid infection:

Infection is aggravating the condition of patients with nephropathy is a very common and obvious reason. Therefore, patients with polycystic kidney disease, they also need to pay attention to avoiding infection in their daily lives, as in the cold weather to keep warm to avoid colds.

3. To avoid renal toxicity Drugs:

Nephrotoxic drugs aggravate renal injury in patients with polycystic kidney disease, thereby increasing the rate of patients entering the renal failure. Therefore, in the course of treatment of patients, we should pay attention to the use of some drugs can cause kidney damage, such as antibiotics and other chemotherapy drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics, narcotics, a variety of angiographic agents.

4. Chinese medicine shrink renal cysts

For polycystic kidney disease patients, the use of Chinese medicine to reduce renal cysts will be a good choice. Now most of the treatment of polycystic kidney disease are treated by Western medicine, 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 through the way of surgery to shrink the cyst. This treatment not only to the body damage, and will soon relapse.

However, the treatment of polycystic kidney disease with traditional Chinese medicine has its obvious advantages, because the traditional Chinese medicine through internal and external treatment of a combination of ways, can be very effective in increasing the permeability of the cyst wall, and through the role of the pressure difference of the cyst fluid was discharged And out of the body.