How to Prevent Renal Damage in PKD

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disorder. Although there is no cure for PKD yet, early intervention and treatment can improve the individuals’ health and make the avoid developing Renal Failure.

How does PKD cause Renal Failure?

PKD is featured by numerous cysts usually growing on both kidneys. With age, the cysts will increase both in size and number. The cysts will oppress the surrounding healthy nephrons thus resulting in renal ischemia and anoxia. Just like people, if the nephrons can not get sufficient oxgen supply, they will die. Finally, the kidneys will fail completely. The completely necrotic kidneys are just like hard stones so the blood can not pass through them at all.

How to prevent renal damage in PKD?

The prognosis of PKD is extremely variable. The earlier they receive treatment, the better the prognosis will be. However, in the early stage of PKD, most of the patients do not have discomforts or symptoms at all so they do not take the disease seriously at all and miss the best treatment opportunity. In clinic, most of the patients with PKD have lost more than half of their renal function when they show noticeable symptoms.

In order to prevent renal damage in PKD, the treatment should primarily focus on inhibiting the enlargement of cysts.

Chinese herbal medicine has been used in treating PKD and showed an enormous therapeutic effect.

The enlargement of cysts is attributed to the secretion of cystic fluid by the lining cells of cysts. The effective integrants in Chinese herbal medicine can promote the functional transformation of the cysts thus making them lose secretion function.

Moreover, the effective medicine can dilate renal arteries. In this way, it can improve the blood supply and oxgen to kidneys so as to stop renal function decline.

If the patients with PKD can receive the above systemic treatment, they will be able to stop the kidney damage and avoid developing Renal Failure completely.