How To Treat the 6-8 mm Kidney Cyst in PKD

2014-07-30 03:41

PKD, which is shorted by Polycystic Kidney Disease, is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be gradually increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. For PKD patients, they are often recommended to have early treatment even they have no symptoms with the small kidney cysts. Then how to treat the 6-8 mm kidney cysts in PKD?

What does the 6-8 mm kidney cysts mean in PKD?

Since PKD is a genetic kidney disease, and the patients will be born with kidney cysts gene in kidneys. When they have regular tests, they may find their cysts in kidneys. The earlier they find the kidney cysts and have earlier treatment, the better prognosis they will have.

For patients with 6-8 mm kidney cysts, the kidney cysts are small enough for them. In this condition, they may have no symptoms with the kidney cysts, so most of the patients will ignore their illness. In fact, this is not right, they should have early treatment, which can help control their illness condition in an early stage and prevent kidney failure.

In general, when the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, the doctor will recommend patients to have surgery to remove the kidney cyst, because the big kidney cyst will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage, so they need to have surgery.

But for 6.8 mm kidney cysts, the patients don’t need to have surgery to remove the kidney cysts, but they also need to have treatment to stop the increase of the kidney cysts.

How to treat the 6-8 mm kidney cysts in natural ways?

Here we recommend PKD patients to treat their 6-8 mm kidney cyst with the treatment of Chinese herbal medicine. The Chinese herbal medicine can help suppress the increase of kidney cysts, and slow down the progression of PKD. Once the kidney cysts are controlled well, it will help PKD patients to prevent their kidney failure and help make a good prognosis for them. If you still have any questions after reading, or you want to get the specific treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, you can contact with our online doctor, or you can also leave a message.

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