Here is a letter reply for a Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patient from
German, who suffers from diabetes and hard breath, as well as poor kidney
functions.
Q: Upto date I have been treated by 6 to 9 doctors and everybody advises me
that there is no medicine to cure or control the growth of cysts. Cause of PKD,
I also have diabetes and breathing problems. As I can’t take any healthy foods I
am feeling weak and finds hard to breath sometimes. My latest blood reports
indicate that my urea is 67 and creatinine is 3.9.
A: As PKD is a genetic disease, it is really hard to cure this problem. PKD
damages kidney through cystic pressure to normal functional kidney cells and
lead to renal anemia, so if kidney cysts can be shrunk, together with proper
treatments for protection, PKD can still be controlled well.
For your present condition, kidneys are enlarged and creatinine level is
high. Frankly, the remaining overall kidney function could not be more than 25%.
For your present condition, the priority is to successfully block any further
kidney function decline through shrinking these cysts and promoting blood flow
into kidneys.
For your present condition, and if analyzed from cytology, there are three
types of cells in your kidneys. There are healthy functional cells, damaged
cells and necrotic cells. Healthy cells are working excessively, and if checked
by Biopsy, we can find these cells are enlarged. Long term overloaded station
makes them fragile to any external influence like infection. And this is the
reason why some patient with stable condition may experience sharp kidney
function decline after an infection like serious cold.
As to these damaged cells, they are still working but partial incapability,
and they are on the road of becoming necrotic. As to these necrotic cells,
frankly speaking, there is no method to restore their function. Treatment for
kidney failure should be a holistic treatment that alleviates internal influence
to provide a favorable environment for the recuperation and self-repairing of
these overloaded and damaged cells, and the treatment should also replenish the
absolute number of functioning kidney cells.
As there is still certain remaining kidney function, there is still a great
hope to block this progression.
