Living with Polycystic Kidney Disease

If you are diagnose with polycystic kidney disease or your family member or friend who has, you may find many question when live with him or her. Living with polycystic kidney disease, you need manage well with diet, treatment, exercise and lifestyle.

Diet

If you live in a PKD family, an appropriate diet management is suggested, especially for the one who is with the disease. You should avoid the salty food, including junk food, processed food and fast food. Too much protein foods will overburden your polycystic kidneys and you can choose proper quantity of lean beef, chicken, fish etc. When renal cysts affect your kidneys working ability, your kidneys hardly cleanse out the extra water in your body, thereby, you’d better have a talk with your doctor about the water intake volume.

Treatment

Many treatments claims work for Polycystic Kidney Disease, but not everyone is a proper therapy for you. Surgery is used when there is extremely large cyst or the cyst causes your extreme pain. However, if there are multiple large cysts in your kidneys, you are not suggested with surgery for repeated operations will cause kidney functions decline.

Chinese herbal medicine is used to shrink your renal cysts and improve kidney functions naturally. This therapy can prevent the further function decline and avoid kidney failure.

If you have stepped into kidney failure stage, Immunotherapy are recommended to generate new cells to develop kidney functions. Meantime, Chinese herbal medicine can provide a better environment for new cells to grow up.

If your kidney functions are less than 15%, your doctor may suggest dialysis to help remove the toxins in your body. At the same time, you can add other treatments to shrink renal cysts and improve kidney functions, so that you can get rid of dialysis gradually. Dialysis only is not a wise decision for PKD patients.

Exercise

Mild exercise helps retard the development of the disease and alleviate the symptoms of PKD. You’d better take 30 min mild exercises 5 days out of one week.

Life style

To avoid the cyst rupture, you should use hammock instead of tighten waist belt. Constipation and lifting heavy thing by bending down is dangerous for your enlarged cysts.

A health provides team can help control your renal cyst and manage well your life. With the development of Chinese herbal medicine, PKD can be controlled well and lead to a normal life for patients. If any help, you can ask free help from our online experts.