Pain Control for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-11-17 02:13

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and the cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage without effective treatment. And patients will have some severe pain with PKD, abdominal pain and headaches are two common symptoms in PKD.

What can cause abdominal pain and headaches in PKD?

- Abdominal pain

The abdominal pain in PKD can be caused by cyst infection, bleeding in kidney cysts, tissue-stretching caused by enlargement of cysts.

- Headaches

Headaches can be caused by high blood pressure or the development of ballooned blood vessels in brain (aneurysms).

How to control the pains in polycystic kidney disease (PKD)?

From above, we can know the main causes of abdominal pain and headaches, so PKD patients need first find the basic cause of their pain, and then have effective treatment.

- Abdominal pain controlling

Since the abdominal pain is mainly caused by the enlargement of kidney cysts, so patients need to have effective treatment to help shrink the kidney cysts, which can help prevent the bleeding of cysts and cyst infection, then the abdominal can be prevented.

Here we recommend the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which uses traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and the herbs can help remove the fluid from cysts and prevent the enlargement of cysts. Then the abdominal pain cause be controlled.

- Headaches controlling

If the headaches is caused by high blood pressure (a common symptom in PKD), patients may need to take medicines to help control the blood pressure, then headaches can be controlled. In addition, the osmotherapy can also help regulate the blood pressure.

If the headaches is mainly caused by aneurysms (a common complication in PKD), patients may need to have surgery, because the aneurysms can be life-threatening for patients.

Above are the suggestions for PKD patients to help control their pain, and we hope this will be helpful for them. If you still have any questions after reading, you can consult the online doctor, or you can also leave a message to us. Our experts will answer you within 24 hours.

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