Q: My 25 year old daughter was diagnosed with PKD in September of 2011. She
is already feeling considerable discomfort. Her body frame is very slight so we
assume that is why. Her test results are within the normal range so her
nephrologist won't see her. What do you recommend for the discomfort?
Kidney contains many nephrons and each nephron includes tubular and
glomerular. For PKD, focal lesion mainly appears at tubular. Our tubular has
areabsorption ability, when it has problem, this function can get affected. We
can find that your daughter's SG is quite low now, so her tubular has been
damaged.
As you said, the biggest cyst reaches up to 3.5cm, enlarged cysts can stretch
nerves around kidneys so patients can feel back pain. And if big cysts get
pressed, they can rupture. In this case, it can cause hematuria and even
peritonitis, both of them are life-threatening.
Fortunately, her hemoglobin does not show severe decline and her toxins does
not increase obviously, that means her residual renal function is still good.
What she should do is to protect this part of residual renal function and halt
the enlargement of cysts.
For the treatment of cysts, there are mainly two methods in worldwide. One is
surgery, the doctor insert a needle to kidneys and draw out the cystic liquid,
so big cysts can shrink. However, this treatment have no efficacy to small cysts
and can cause further injury to normal renal tissue, so small cysts can enlarge
again when pressure from big cysts disappear and renal function can decline
further.
For natural treatment, it can restrain the production of cystic liquid and
the hyperplasia of lining cells, increase the permeability of cystic wall. No
matter big cysts or small cysts, all of them can stop enlargement after a period
of treatment. Compared with the former one, the latter one will not cause pain
and side-effects, therefore, patients prefer natural treatment to surgery. We
have rich experience to treat PKD with natural treatment. If you need more
information, you can contact free online service.
