Drugs for treating polycystic kidney disease

When people have kidney problems, it will bring many complications, and polycystic kidney disease is one of the more stubborn symptoms of the disease. You should listen to your doctor's advice when choosing drugs to treat polycystic kidney disease. Patients with polycystic kidney disease should maintain self-confidence, especially their families should give more encouragement. They should pay attention to not eating salty and spicy foods, and focus on light and easily digestible foods. Strengthening physical exercise and developing good exercise habits are very effective in restoring health.

1. General treatment: Generally speaking, after a patient is diagnosed with polycystic liver or polycystic kidney, the first thing they should do is to treat polycystic kidney disease.

Maintain an optimistic attitude. If it has not yet affected the patient's normal life, you should be careful not to eat too much salty, spicy and other irritating foods, maintain a regular schedule, and keep a stable and optimistic mood. If it has affected the patient's normal life, you should pay attention to the above points and receive treatment, and the sooner the better. Otherwise, it will be too late if it develops into renal failure and uremia.

2. Treatment with traditional Chinese medicine: Currently, traditional Chinese medicine adopts conservative treatment (taking traditional Chinese medicine) in the treatment of polycystic liver and polycystic kidney, and the effect is very good. Traditional Chinese medicine adopts a holistic concept and syndrome differentiation and treatment, believing that polycystic kidney disease is the result of the combined effects of external and internal factors. Through stepped diversion, the cyst fluid is gradually discharged to achieve the goal of gradually shrinking the cyst.

3. Cyst decompression: This treatment method for polycystic kidney disease reduces the pressure of the cyst on the renal parenchyma, protects most of the remaining renal units from squeezing and further damage, improves renal ischemia, restores some renal function units, and delays the progression of the disease.

4. Treatment of hematuria: When hematuria occurs, in addition to identifying the cause and providing treatment as soon as possible, you should reduce activity or rest in bed. For patients who are already on dialysis or about to undergo dialysis and have recurrent severe and uncontrollable hematuria, transcatheter renal artery embolization may be considered.

5. Infection treatment: Renal parenchymal infection and cyst infection are the main complications of this disease. The general treatment method for polycystic kidney disease is

The principle is to use antibiotics in combination.

6. Dialysis and transplantation: When entering the end-stage renal failure, dialysis treatment should be immediately initiated, with hemodialysis being the first choice. The survival rate of kidney transplantation for polycystic kidney disease is similar to that of kidney transplantation for other reasons, but the concomitant diseases increase the difficulty of postoperative treatment and affect the transplantation effect.

Limit excessive protein intake: Eat less high-protein, high-fat and greasy foods such as chicken, duck, fish and meat; eat less foods rich in plant protein, such as beans and soy products (especially for patients with polycystic kidney disease and renal insufficiency). A low-protein diet plays an important role in reducing the burden on the kidneys and alleviating the disease.

Limit the use of medications that have toxic side effects on the kidneys. Of course, when hypertension and edema occur, while limiting sodium salt intake, it is still necessary to use antihypertensive drugs (although there are certain toxic side effects, too high blood pressure will cause greater damage to the kidneys).

Limit the intake of foods with strong flavors, such as pickled and overly salty foods. Of course, when controlling the salt content, adjustments should be made based on the patient's condition and renal function. Not all patients with renal cysts need to strictly limit salt intake.

Limit spicy foods: such as chili peppers, alcohol, smoking, chocolate, coffee, sea fish, shrimp, crab, etc.

Limit contaminated food: such as rancid, unhygienic, and barbecued food.