Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Be Cured

2015-02-22 07:07

“Doctor, my husband was diagnosed with PKD. Is this disease severe? Can it be cured?” This should be the most common question for most of the PKD patients when they were diagnosed with PKD. Because of not knowing much about this disease, so patients will wonder whether PKD can be cured. Then can polycystic kidney disease be cured? In this following article, we will get further understanding.

First, let’s get some knowledge of the polycystic kidney disease.

Polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, is a genetic kidney disease, and patients will have polycystic gene when they were born. But most of the patients will find there disease after their 20 years old. PKD patients will have multiple cysts on kidneys, and the cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. Nowadays, people has no ability to change the gene, so we can know the PKD cant be cured, it will finally develop into end stage kidney failure without effective treatment. But this doesn’t mean there is no treatment to help slow down the progression of PKD.

Second, how to remedy the polycystic kidney disease?

With the further research of PKD, the experts inPeking Tung Shin Tang Chinese Medical Hospitalhave found a marked feature that is the hyperactive of lining epithelial cells. So we need to put the emphasis of treatment into inhibiting of lining epithelial cell activity, then it can help shrink the kidney cysts and prevent the further damage caused by enlargement of cysts.

In our hopspital, there is a PKD patient from Rwanda, who has the PKD history for more than 20 years. Because his disease has no improvements after the treatment in local hospital, so he chose to come to China for Chinese herbal treatment. His director doctor Li Zheng make a systemic treatment for him aims at inhibiting of lining epithelial cell activity, which can help prevent the secretion of fluid from cyst wall. The specific treatments include Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Foot Bath Therapy, Oral Chinese Medicine Therapy, Maikang Mixture, etc. These therapies can help shrink the cyst and prevent the enlargement of cysts, which can help slow down or even stop the progression of PKD. Once the disease can be controlled well, it will make a good prognosis for patients.

If you want to get more details of the treatments for PKD patients, you can consult online doctor, or you can also send e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

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