What Can Shrink Cyst in Polycystic Kidney Disease

2014-06-18 08:04

What can shrink cyst in PKD? Almost all the PKD patients will finally experience enlargement of kidney and kidney cyst if effective treatment can not be given timely. With advanced PKD, patients may find their stomach becomes very large. For this reason, they need to be very careful about their daily action, so as to avoid cyst rupture. Well, is there a permanent for such a condition? What can help to shrink cyst in Polycystic Kidney Disease?

PKD progresses with the increase and enlargement of kidney cyst

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a gene problem in which kidney is filled with fluid collection. In the every beginning, only one or several cysts appears in kidney. With the development of illness, more and more kidney cysts are formed and meanwhile cysts become bigger and bigger as time goes by.

In cases of PKD, kidney condition begins to decline when kidney tissues are injured due to the increased and enlarged kidney cyst. Also, kidney function keeps decreasing if no effective measures are taken. Creatinine level and BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) level begin to increase usually when a half of kidney function is impaired. Therefore, PKD patients with elevated creatinine level and BUN level should take treatment as soon as possible.

What can shrink cyst in Polycystic Kidney Disease?

Since enlargement of kidney cyst plays an important role for the deterioration of illness, it is necessary for us to do something to shrink cysts:

1. Avoid specify foods and salted foods, so as to protect residual kidney tissues.

2. No alcohol: Alcohol can stimulate kidney cyst and cause further enlargement of kidney cyst. That is the reason why PKD patients are always asked to kick the bad habits of drinking alcohol.

3. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy to reduce fluid inside the cyst: in PKD, kidney cyst becomes larger and larger with the increase of cystic fluid, so when fluid inside the cyst is reduced successfully, kidney cyst is shrunk naturally.

4. Bring all the symptoms like high blood pressure and proteinuria under control, which is very important for PKD patients to slow down illness progression and buy time to shrink kidney cyst.

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