Main Points of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Treatment

What are the main points of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) treatment? Usually, it is believed that “the goal of treatment of this disease is to control symptoms and prevent complications.” And it is also believed that “high blood pressure may be difficult to control, but control of it is the most important aspect of treatment.” Yes, it is true that we need to control the symptoms and prevent complications and make a good control of the blood pressure because this disease can’t be cured completely. However, how can we achieve these goals? What are the main points of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) treatment?

Symptoms of polycystic kidney disease include abdominal pain or tenderness, blood in the urine, excessive urination at night and flank pain on one or both sides. Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease include the following: drowsiness, high blood pressure, joint pain, nail abnormalities, painful menstruation. And the complications of this disease include the following: high blood pressure, anemia, recurrent urinary tract infection, recurrent kidney infection, kidney stones, kidney failure (mild to severe), end-stage kidney disease, bleeding or rupture of the cysts, infection of liver cysts and liver failure (mild to severe).

For these symptoms and complications of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), we need to control the continuous enlargement of the kidney cysts. As there are numerous cysts in the kidneys, it is not possible for the patients to drain all the fluid in the cysts by surgeries. At present, the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can be a better choice for the patients to shrink the cysts without surgeries.

In addition, Treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) may include: blood pressure medicines, diuretics, low-salt diet. What’s more, any urinary tract infection should be treated promptly with appropriate antibiotics.

Surgical removal of one or both kidneys may be required. Treatment of end-stage kidney disease may include kidney dialysis or kidney transplantation.


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