Mental Care of Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

Polycystic Kidney Disease should pay more attention on mental care. But why? Actually, one person’s mental condition has great influence on occurrence, development and treatment of Kidney Disease. Different mental characteristics can lead to functional disorder of internal organ and worsen Kidney Disease directly or indirectly.

In Chinese Medicine Therapy, mental factor is one of pathogenetic factors. Human body is a closely integrated organic whole. One person’s mentality is closely related with internal organic function. During the process of Kidney Disease development, mentality is also very important. A good mental mood is beneficial to make Qi flow smoothly, which is helpful to keep each internal organ operating normally. Then water metabolism as well as secretion and excretion function can be normal. All these are favorable for Kidney Disease patients to recover.
Contrarily, bad mental mood can cause Qi dysfunction and blood circulation disorder,, resulting in functional disorder of internal organs which can cause or worsen illness condition.


Clinically, most PKD patients will lose confidence of overcoming the disease due to much long disease course or worsening illness condition. They may feel despondent and pessimistic, or even despairing. For this reason, other family members or patients friends should console patients frequently and encourage patients to fight against with disease. Through this way, patients can cooperate with doctors actively in a favorable mood. During the process of treating this disease, patients should avoid bad mental stimulation, which is helpful for patients’ recovery.