Can Gene Therapy Cure Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Although gene technique is so advanced and it has been applied to clone organs and even human. However, the application of gene technique still does not develop maturely in medical area. Therefore, the gene therapy is not still applied to treat PKD yet.

You should not feel disappointed about the bad news. Although we can not change PKD gene, it is possible for us to stop the cysts from enlarging and shrinking the large cysts. If so, you will be able to avoid developing Renal Failure.

PKD is featured by numerous cysts growing usually on bilateral kidneys. With age, the cysts will increase both in number and size. The enlarged cysts will suppress the neighboring nephrons and replace more and more normal renal tissues. As a result, the renal function will decline along with a series of symptoms such as high blood pressure, hematuria, back pain, proteinuria etc.

To stop renal function decline, it is important for you to control the symptoms of PKD. You can take high blood pressure medications, limiting protein supplement and so on to relieve the symptoms. However, you can only take them as assistant methods because they can not stop the cysts enlargement at all. You must take proper treatment to stop PKD progression.

Chinese herbal medicine is combined with modern techniques perfectly and has showed enormous therapeutic effect in treating PKD.

Chinese herbal medicine is used externally, not taken orally. The effective medicines can be permeated into kidney lesions directly with the help of modern instruments. The medicines can act on the cysts and inactivating the epithelial cells of the cysts. Therefore, it can stop the secretion of the cystic fluid effectively.

Moreover, Chinese herbal medicine can improve renal function by dilating blood vessels and increasing blood supply to kidneys, supplying nutrients to kidneys etc.

After the above systemic treatment, you will have obvious improvement such as relief in back pain, high blood pressure etc. Therefore, you will be able to live a normal life and avoid developing Renal Failure