Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney disorder in which numerous
kidney cysts grow from kidneys. What kind of doctor should I see for Polycystic
Kidney Disease?
Who can diagnose Polycystic Kidney Disease?
If you family members, especially your father or mother, have the history of
PKD, you need to screen your kidneys regularly. With familial PKD history and
the B ultrasound or MRI, CT scan, your primary-care physician, a mid-level
practitioner or a nurse may make an initial diagnosis for you.
Once you are diagnosed with PKD, you need to take more examinations, such as
urine routine, blood routine, that indicates what your kidney functions are at
present and whether you need immediate treatment or not.
What Kind of Doctor Should I See for Polycystic Kidney Disease?
There are many types of doctors for kidney diseases, including
family-medicine specialists, nurse practitioner, nephrologist etc. However, as
for Polycystic Kidney Disease, we divided all doctors into two types according
to the current treatment for PKD. They are surgeon and Herbal therapists.
For the numerous renal cysts, there is no better method except surgery in
western medicine field. As the renal cysts squeeze the kidney tissues to loss
kidney functions and lead to kidney failure, surgeon will take the several
threatening cysts away. However, surgeon will be your regular guests for the
smaller one will grow up sooner or later.
Apart from surgeon, you can ask help from herbal therapists who uses specific
herbs to stop the growth of epithelial lining cells which are the birthplace of
renal cysts. By control of lining cells, Chinese Herbal Medicine stops the
further growth of renal cysts and shrinks small and large renal cysts naturally
at the same time. As Chinese herbal Medicine contract all renal cysts, PKD
hardly reoccurs.
When to see a doctor?
See a doctor annually for a checkup to make sure there is no cyst in your
kidneys.
Make an appointment for additional checkup if you are found to have cysts on
kidneys.
If you want to take a surgery, you should wait for the larger cysts as larger
as 3cm. For the smaller cysts, your surgeon will not conduct the surgery.
If you want to see the herbal therapists, you’d better to make an appointment
as soon as possible. If you take measures earlier, some kidney functions can be
reversed, otherwise, some kidney functions will not come back forever.
