Three Common Treatments for Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), caused by genetic disorder, is an inherited disease. In recent years, the researches for PKD treatments have achieved a large progress. In the clinical, there are usually three methods to treat this disease: general treatment, surgical treatment and complications treatment. At first, the patients should control their diet and avoid drastic exercise. If the patients don’t get good effect through the general treatment, they should consider the surgical treatment and prevent the complications.
1. General treatment
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should control protein intake in their diet and drink the water more than 3000ml. According to the patient’s condition, they can do appropriate exercise but not drastic exercise.
2. Complications treatment
Treatment for back pain: If the patient’s back pain is transient, he can observe his disease at the beginning. But the patient has to consider surgical treatment if his back pain is serious and the analgesic can’t help him to ease his pain.
Treatment for bleeding: The patient should choose appropriate treatment according to the causes of his hematuria and the size of his cyst. If bleed too much, the patient has to accept blood transfusion treatment and at that time, bed rest is very important to him.
Treatment for hypertension: Hypertension is not only one of Polycystic Kidney Disease complications but also one of factors that can cause kidney function damage. If the patient suffers from hypertension, he must take some measures to control his blood pressure for example: maintaining his weight, doing some exercise, eating some medicine, and even doing surgical treatment.
Treatment for infection: Cyst infection is the common complication. Sensitive antibiotics can help the patient to treat his infection.
Surgical Treatment: When the conservative treatment is invalid, patients can do surgery to remove the increasing cyst. Different patients should use different surgical schemes according to their conditions. The surgical methods include cyst puncture pumping fluid method, cyst to top decompression, laparoscopic down top decompression and high selectivity in renal artery embolization.
Common treatments can only help the Polycystic Kidney Disease patients ease their symptoms but not cure their diseases. If these patients want to have a better treatment effect, they can consider a new therapy- Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmtherapy.