What To Do With Itchy Skin In PKD

2014-11-23 08:13

Itchy skin is the most common symptom of polycystic kidney disease (PKD). It is very terrible and many people cannot bear it. Well, what to do with itchy skin in PKD? Follow us to find the answer.

Diseased kidneys cannot remove wastes from the body effectively and normally. Then, wastes will accumulate in your body, causing itchy skin. In this condition, dialysis is necessary. It can make you safe in a temporary period. However, only dialysis is not enough. As you know, dialysis is a kind of man-made machine that replace kidneys to discharge toxins, but it can not repair the damaged kidney tissues and cannot improve your kidney function.

You have itchy skin, but dialysis cannot remove all the toxic things out of your blood and kidneys. Hemodialysis can only remove the small molecules toxins like creatinine, urea and uric acid. Large molecules toxins like homocysteine and retinol binding protein are still in blood and cause more serious damage. Therefore, hemofiltration, hemoperfusion and plasma exchange can be used together according to patients’ condition and based on the complete test results. In Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal bath therapy, foot bath therapy and acupuncture can also achieve the effect of blood purification. In this way, blood vessels can be dilated and blood circulation can be improved. In this condition, wastes will be discharged out of the body. Itchy skin can be alleviated naturally and effectively. What’s more, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is able to repair kidney damage and improve renal function. Only in this way can itchy skin be alleviated radically.

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