How Can I Avoid Dialysis with PKD

2015-02-18 07:53

People with PKD in kidney failure stage usually require dialysis to sustain their life. Dialysis is really an ordeal as it always causes physical discomforts. Well, how can we avoid dialysis with PKD?

Dialysis is not needed when PKD is in early stage. Currently, there is no cure for PKD, so to avoid dialysis, we need to receive effective treatment to keep illness in early stage. To achieve this goal, the following measures are usually needed:

-Control blood pressure

Blood pressure is not the cause of PKD, but if it is not controlled in normal range, further kidney damages will be caused. For this reason, hypotensive drugs like ACEI (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors) and ARBs (Angiotensin Receptor Blockers) are usually applied.

- Control abnormalities related with kidney disorder

When kidneys fail to work properly, lots of health tissues like proteinuria, fluid retention and hematuria will be caused one by one. To avoid dialysis with PKD, tight control of these abnormalities is very necessary.

-Treat urinary tract infection

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is a very common complication of PKD, which always brings symptoms of frequent urination, urgent urination burning sensation during urination, etc. If not treated, UTI will worsen kidney condition, and seeps up illness progression.

-Treat large kidney cysts, so as to prevent further kidney damages

Kidney function keeps declining when more and more kidney tissues are damaged by large kidney cysts, so we need to prevent further damage to kidney, so as to stop illness progression. Dialysis is not needed if residual kidney function is effective enough to maintain normal life activity. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a good treatment which can shrink large kidney cysts and reduce cysts in kidney without causing any side effects.

-Arrange kidney-friendly diet to reduce kidney burden

PKD can not be brought under control just by diet, but a well-planed diet helps to reduce kidney burden, which contributes to the tight control of illness. Thus, a kidney-friendly diet also plays a part for us to avoid dialysis. (Contact online doctor or leave a message below to get individual diet plan)

Lastly, we can not avoid dialysis if we do nothing or just control symptoms. PKD is genetic kidney disorder and it is not easy to bring it under control. However, if we do as we mentioned above, our chance to avoid dialysis will be increased greatly.

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