For PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) patients, renal cysts cause kidney
functions to decline and urea nitrogen will build up in blood, causing high
urine nitrogen levels.
What is blood urea nitrogen?
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) measures the amount of nitrogen in your blood,
which is filtered out when kidneys work well. Urea is made when protein is
broken down in your body. Urea is made in the liver (polycystic liver disease)
and passed out of your body in the urine.
How does PKD cause high urea nitrogen level?
Blood urea nitrogen is an indicator of kidney functions. If your kidneys can
not work well to remove urea from the blood, your blood urea nitrogen will be
high.
In most PKD cases, numerous renal cysts keep enlarging, which will take for
more space in abdominal cavity. Many neighboring renal tissues will be oppressed
and affected. As renal lesions spread, kidney function declines day by day, thus
kidneys fail to remove blood urea nitrogen normally.
How to treat high urea nitrogen level caused by PKD?
As mentioned above, high urea nitrogen level result from the decline kidney
functions. Thereby the key to treat high urea nitrogen in PKD cases, should
remove the root cause of declined kidney functions, which is to remove kidney
cysts. Meantime, it is necessary to reverse the damaged kidneys and improve
renal functions.
For larger kidney cysts which threaten your kidney health seriously, surgery
can alleviate the patient in a short time. However, if your kidney cysts will
not kill you in short run, conservative treatment is suggested for surgery will
ask you pay the price of trauma to your kidneys.
Conservative treatment, also known as Chinese herbal medicine, which can
control the growth of kidney cysts and shrink them (small cysts or larger cysts)
without any trauma or any side effects for you.
Meantime, tonic herbs usually are added in the treatment for PKD, which help
patient improve renal functions accordingly. Only PKD is controlled, can your
high urea nitrogen level is reduced by your own recovered kidneys. If you are in
similar condition, such as high creatinine level, you can mail to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com for further guidelines. Or you can contact our free online
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