Treatments For Enlarged Kidney
Enlarged kidney is mainly caused by kidney cyst and PKD. Patients’ condition is not severe when their cysts are small, but it is hard to treat when they grow very big. Many people may be curious about the treatments for enlarged kidney, so it is necessary for patients to have a better understanding about this aspect.
Micro Chinese medicine therapy
In western medicine, they may have no method to treat this disease when the cyst is small, and they may let the patients wait until their cysts are more than 5cm, and then they will relieve patients disease by operation. While in traditional Chinese medicine, patients’ cysts in its early stage can be controlled, which is achieved by using micro Chinese medicine therapy. This therapy is the improvement of traditional Chinese medicine, and it improves the shortage of traditional Chinese medicine that it needs a long time to have effect by using modern technology.
Puncture
To patients whose cysts are more than 5cm, a common therapy in treating their disease is puncture. This therapy is suitable to treat cyst, because its operation is simple, and it takes little pain to patients. Besides, this method can not cause big damage to kidney tissues.
But this method also has it shortage, and that is patients’ disease are easy to relapse, so patients have to accept this therapy frequently.
Excision
Another operation is often used is excision. If patients’ cyst is too big, by using excision, patients’ condition can be improved obviously. On the other hand, excision can damage renal parenchyma, and this can aggravate patients’ condition in some degree, so patients mat have to accept kidney transplant when their kidney is damaged too serious.
In addition, in treating the enlarged kidney, preventing infection is very important, because infection is the most common ingredient that can aggravate patients’ kidney disease. Exercise can promote the blood circulation, and this can increase the blood flow in kidney, which can help preventing the occurrence of glomerular sclerosis.
Besides, right diet and life habit are also important in treating patients’ disease, and patients should also remember to keep a good emotion, because this can promote patients’ immunity.
