Is Kidney Transplant the Best Way for CKD

If you are a patient with end stage Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) or Renal Failure (CRF), you are likely to be suggested to accept a new kidney by transplantation. You may wonder whether kidney transplant is the best way to treat your disease, and whether there is any other way can save your life. Don’t worry about that so much, and here is some information about kidney transplant.
◆ What should you do before and after kidney transplant?
If you want to accept kidney transplant, you should make sure at first that you do not have significant heart, lung, liver disease or other diseases such as cancer which might decrease your life span.
Secondly, you have to wait for a donated kidney which is suitable for your body, during that time, you need to keep taking dialysis to control your disease.
However, there are some risks and drawbacks after accepting the transplantation.
1. To reduce the rejection of the new kidney, you have to take medicines called immunosuppressants, including cyclosporine or tacrolimus. Keep in mind that you must take medicines under the direction of your doctors, because any nonprescription medicines, such as cold remedies may cause problems with your anti-rejection medicines.
2. You should protect yourself from any kinds of infections and stay far away from crowd of people as your immune system is no longer as well as before, and there is more risk for you to be infected than others.
3. With the assurance of modern technology, patients can live about five to ten years with the new kidney after the operation.
◆ Is there any other way to treat end stage Chronic Kidney Disease?
To accept kidney transplant is a comprehensive project and you should be discreet before making the decision. Try to find some other ways to control the disease and learn more knowledge about kidney disease.
In fact, apart from transplantation, there are some other measures can be taken to control CKD and CRF with a satisfying result, for instance, Chinese medicine and stem cell transplantation. Both of them can help you live a normal life with the illness through treating your disease fundamentally and rebuilding your immune system.

Treatment for High Blood Pressure in CKD

How should we treat high blood pressure in CKD? And in which way can we get the best and effective results? The patients with high blood pressure in CKD must have cared about this topic very much. Here we will make a detailed explanation for you.
Although different stages have different treatment plans, they are all for the purpose of getting better. The best results we can get after treatment include:
Control blood pressure within less than 130/80.
Make kidney disease get better.
Decrease the rate of heart disease.
If patients with high blood pressure in CKD want to achieve the above goals, they must change themselves in many aspects, such as a healthier diet, more exercising and proper medications.
Now we will describe the specific treatment for it.
The treatment of renovascular hypertension
Renovascular hypertension is always treated by surgery mostly, which is the best therapy. And patients should have a healthy life.
The treatment of renal hypertension
1. Modification of life. Have a healthy diet. In stage 1 and 2, patients should eat more food which is rich in fruits and vegetables, low in sodium and sugar. When kidney function decreases largely, patients should control the intake of things, such as protein, cholesterol, saturated fat, potassium and phosphorus. Besides, patients should take more exercise and lose weight.
2. Anti-hypertensive medications: this medicine can control blood pressure of patients within a normal range. The most commonly anti-hypertensive medications include: ACEI, ARB, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretic, etc. What is more, you must take the medicine as your doctor advises. Never take the medicine blindly by yourself.
3. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. With the effect of anti-coagulation and extending blood pressure, this therapy can reduce the force of blood against the walls of blood vessels, thus lowering hypertension. Besides, this therapy can also help reverse patients’ kidney damage and improve kidney function.
4. Therapy for CKD. Medicines for chronic kidney disease. Patients use these medicines to slow down the deterioration of kidney function, which can contribute to lowering blood pressure.

In a word, we should combine the treatment of high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease. Only in this way can we get the best and effective treatment for high blood pressure in CKD.

How to treat Chronic Kidney Disease

Many people may not be familiar with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Actually, it is a kind of renal disease caused by glomerular abnormalities and brings serious result to patients, so it must be treated in time in case of more serious conditions, but how to treat the CKD?
Strengthen the treatment for primary disease
The patients should strengthen the treatment for primary diseases, such as lupus nephritis, renal tuberculosis, urinary tract obstruction, etc. The patients should treat primary disease with the adjunctive treatment of dialysis, some uremia can be reversed, and the renal function can be recovered in some way.
The use of traditional Chinese medicine
The patients can use traditional Chinese medicine in curing CKD. Chinese herbal medicine has certain curative effect on early stage renal failure, but the effect is not ideal for advanced uremia. This time, the patients should take the treatment of dialysis immediately, otherwise they may miss the best time for treatment.
Take proper amount of protein
Kidney disease patients are often told to pay attention to protein intake, in fact, the long-term low protein diet may cause severe protein malnutrition. Therefore, based on the low protein diet therapy, the patients should supply essential amino acids to improve the state of malnutrition, protect the residual renal units and delay the development of renal failure.
Psychological treatment
Psychological therapy plays an important role in curing any diseases. Fear and worry may accelerate the deterioration of CKD. Therefore, you must have a good attitude at first.
In treatment for CKD, patients should pay attention to their daily health. It’s the only way to speed up the rehabilitation of CKD. If there are any questions, you can directly contact our online doctors, they will be glad to answer your questions!