Polycystic Kidney: Is Having These Problems Normal?

A lot of patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) experience many health problems but not all the same. They are scary if their health problems are warning signs of aggravation. Polycystic Kidney Disease usually presents no symptoms before spells; however, PKD will develop faster after signs and symptoms take place. Polycystic Kidney Disease plays a significant role in Uremia among the middle-aged group.

Common health problems of Polycystic Kidney Disease are listed as below. Although these problems are usual on patients with PKD, to prevent the disease from getting worse you need to notify your doctor and ask for treatment as soon as possible.

Common symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease:

(1). Discomforts of lower back and abdomen, dull pain or kidney twist pain.
(2). Urinary problems such as hematuria, frequent Nocturia, oliguria, anuria, frequent micturition, urgency or urodynia.
(3). Digestive problems like loss of appetite in late stage of PKD, nausea and vomiting.
(4).Other problems: ascites, dizziness, weakness, Anemia, edema, loss of consciousness and even paralysis.

People with Polycystic Kidney Disease also have many internal health problems that can be detected by certain examinations. Some of these signs may exhibit no body discomforts so they will be hard for patients to know; therefore patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease should have periodical examinations to find out internal body problems. Common unfavorable signs of Polycystic Kidney Disease include:

1. Enlargement of cysts.
2. Hypertension
3. Proteinuria and leucocyturia
4. Microscopic or macroscopic hematuria
5. kidney stone
6. Ureteral obstruction
7. Liver enlargement
8. Anemia
9. Kidney dysfunction
10. Cardiovascular problem like Aortic Root Dilatation, Tricuspid Valve Prolapse and aneurysm of aorta.
11. About 30% of patients with Polycystic Kidney will have Hepatic Cysts; 10% of them will have Spleen Cysts; 10% to 20% of them will have Cerebral Basal Aneurysm; 80% of them may have digestive tract diverticulum; and some patients may have Diaphragmatic Hernia.

Polycystic Kidney Disease is the most common hereditary kidney disease that may severely affect the patients and their next generations. At present, there are some ways can shrink the cysts instead of surgery.

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How to Treat Kidney Stone in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Kidney stone is a common complication in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and occurs in up to 20 percent of people with the disease. Kidney stones may cause pain or obstruct urinary tract. It is also a stimulating factor for the development of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Therefore, it is very essential to treat kidney stone effectively.

How do kidney stones form in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)?

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is caused by the abnormal proliferation of the renal tubular epithelial cells. If uncontrolled, the cysts will enlarge gradually and oppress the renal tubule. Hence, the renal tubule can not function well to keep electrolytes balance. Afterwards, a lot of uric substances accumulate resulting in high blood uric acid level. As a result, the calcium oxalate and calcium urate deposit gradually and form stones.

How to treat kidney stone in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)?

As kidney stone can accelerate the growth of the cysts, it is extremely to remove the stones as early as possible. On one hand, alkalifying urine is a very important step in preventing the formation of stones. However, it can only treat the disease from its symptoms. To prevent the formation of kidney stones, improving the regulatory function of the renal tubule is a necessary step. Therefore, what should the patients firstly do is to relive the oppression to renal tubule and shrink the enlarged cysts.

Here Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is suggested to the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). The therapeutic mechanism is as follows.
Firstly, the effective medicine ingredients can dilate blood vessels so as to improve the permeability of the cyst wall. It can improve the excretion of the cystic fluid.

Secondly, Micro-Chinese Medicine can inactivate the epithelial cells of the cyst wall. Therefore, it can decline the cystic fluid secretion from the underlying cause.

With the shrinking of the cysts, the oppression to renal tubule will diminish gradually. Once the renal tubule recovers its normal regulatory function, it will be able to inhibit the formation of the kidney stones.

Treatment of Hematuria in Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease patients are very often to experience hematuria, gross hematuria in most cases. Hematuria, also called blood in urine, is a phenomenon that red blood cells are presented in urine. Chinese herbs can treat it effectively without surgery.

Why Polycystic Kidney Disease patients experience hematuria?

Two factors can lead to hematuria for PKD patients. The first one is the cyst rupture. Nearly every patient with PKD will suffer from cyst rupture even without provocation. Generally speaking, when the cysts are 3cm larger in diameter, they have the chance of rupture and bleeding. When the cysts bleed, some red blood cells will go out of body into the urine. That is why hematuria occurs. By the way, when the cysts rupture, patients will also suffer from fever, shiver and infection, which need treatment immediately. The other reason is the damage of glomeruli and renal tubules. If the cysts continue to grow, they will surely cause damage on kidney units. When they are damaged, the red blood cells will leak from the filtration membrane, without reabsorption by the renal tubules. Thus, patients will find gross hematuria.

What is the treatment of hematuria in Polycystic Kidney Disease?

In most patients, the hemostatics will be prescribed to deal with hematuria. However, the hematuria will back in a short period. The medicines are necessary directed by your doctors. Besides, patients should clear the root. Chinese herbs are recommended to treat hematuria caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Chinese herbs can shrink the cysts by inactivating the epithelial cells and speeding up the blood circulation. Also, Chinese herbs can repair the damaged filtration membrane by dilating blood cells and clear the wastes accumulated in the membrane. Also, Chinese herbs will provide enough nutrition for the repair of kidney damage. In this way, hematuria will go away naturally.

Etiology of High Blood Pressure in PKD

In most cases of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), high blood pressure is the first symptom. It is an immediate cause of heart failure and other complications among the patients. Sometimes, the patients with PKD may die of other diseases due to high blood pressure before it progresses into End Stage Renal Failure. Therefore, it is very important to manage high blood pressure in PKD.

High blood pressure is a sign of disease aggravation. For more than 50% of the patients with PKD, their blood pressure rises before the creatinine level elevates. PKD is featured by multiple cysts growing on kidneys. If left untreated, the cysts will enlarge continuously and oppress the healthy renal tissues and renal blood vessels causing renal local ischemia. After the receptor in kidneys senses this case, it can stimulate the kidneys to secrete more renin.
As a result, the angiotensin concentration rises and blood vessels contract. Afterwards, the blood pressure will increase. High blood pressure and renal function damage forms a vicious circle.

After the blood pressure rises, the small arteries through the body will contract and have spasm, which can cause the endangium to have hyaline change and damage the vascular wall. Afterwards, more cholesterol and other substances will deposit on the vascular wall and thicken the vascular wall and thin the lumen. As a result, the renal fibrosis is initiated and kidneys fail gradually until develops End Stage Renal Failure.

Then what can be done to control high blood pressure in PKD?

High blood pressure can be lowered by life style changes, regular exercise and diet. They should avoid smoking and alcohol and develop healthy daily habits. Increased salt intake can cause water retention in body thus increasing blood volume elevating blood pressure.

If there is a family history of PKD, other family members should keep systemic screening and keep the principle: early inspection and early treatment. In this way, they will be able to reduce the incidence of Renal Failure.

Natural Remedy for ADPKD

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) covers the majority of the total population of people with Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). As many people know the ending of the disease from their parents’ experience, they are very eager to seek for an effective therapy to stop the progression of ADPKD. Here a natural remedy will introduce the patients with ADPKD.

In the western medicine, the patients usually use surgery or LRCD to eliminate the large cyst. Of course, these treatment methods can delay the progression of the disease temporarily and relieve the symptoms like pain, high blood pressure etc. However, once the big cysts are removed, the left ones will grow up at a fast speed to oppress the kidneys again. What the patients with ADPKD should primarily do is to stop the enlargement of all the cysts growing on kidneys, but not a single one.

A natural remedy---Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is applied to treat ADPKD and has showed its enormous effect.

Many foreigners are not familiar with this therapy, but many of them must have heard about Chinese herbal medicine. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an innovative application of Chinese herbal medicine.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external therapy. The well-chosen medicines are shattered into powder and then are packed in bags made of special material. Then with the help of modern instrument, the effective medicine integrants will be able to be permeated into the kidney lesions directly from kidney area.

Then the effective medicine can work on the cysts and promote the resorption ability of the lining wall of the cysts. As a result, the cysts will stop growing and shrinking gradually.

Moreover, the medicine can dilate blood vessels to improve systemic blood circulation and increase the blood and nutrients supply to kidneys. Therefore, it can promote the self-repairing of the impaired renal functional cells due to oppression of the enlarged cysts.

After the above systemic treatment, the cysts will be able to stop growing and shrink gradually. In this way, the patients with ADPKD will be able to avoid developing Renal Failure completely.

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What Shall I Get After Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disease characterized by numerous cysts on the kidney(s). It is one of the most common causes of Kidney Failure. The cysts are tough to be eliminated in the majority of patients. The cysts usually grow with age and then they will exert pressures to the kidney resulting in kidney dysfunction.

Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease are many; the most common complications are Hypertension, hematuria, Kidney enlargement, Urinary Tract Infection and infection. People with Polycystic Kidney Disease may also have lower back pain, fever, back soreness, kidney angina and so on. Many patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease are failed to be treated by Conventional treatment. Conventional treatment focuses on symptomatic treatment in the early period to control high blood pressure and infection; in middle stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease, surgeries are taken to remove bigger cysts and delay the life expectancy of the kidneys; and in late stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease, people with PKD have to live on dialysis.

As you can see, conventional treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease is not able to stop the progression of the disease. Besides, there are many weaknesses of the treatment. For example, surgery can remove the bigger cysts only which save room for smaller cysts to wildly grow. Surgery is traumatic; each surgery may bring some damages to the kidney tissues. Even dialysis is not a best way to stop Polycystic Kidney Disease; and maybe you will experience more symptoms brought by dialysis.

If you want your Polycystic Kidney Disease be well controlled and avoid as many as symptoms from both disease itself and treatment, then you should choose a treatment which is able to drastically stop the development of the disease and repair damaged kidney tissue. You may try Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy which is able to inhibit the growth of the cysts by deactivating cyst walls to secret cystic fluid. In additional, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is able to improve the sick condition of the kidney thus maintaining the maximum kidney function.

How to Improve Renal Function with Creatinine 380, GFR 22 in PKD

Q: I inherit Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) from my father. The recent tests show the following values:

GFR: 22,

Creatinine level: 380,

Blood pressure: 145/95.

My doctor tells me that there is no method to stop Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) progression and I have to start dialysis in about 2 years. After reading your website, I am very interested in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy in the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Is the therapy effective? Can it make me avoid dialysis?

A: Generally speaking, if the patients do not have serious complications, they are recommended to start dialysis when the GFR declines to 10. As your present GFR is 22, if your can prevent further renal function decline, you have 100% chance of avoiding dialysis.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a natural treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). It is a new development of traditional Chinese medicines. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external therapy instead of the traditional oral taken traditional Chinese medicines. After the effective medicines are superfinely shattered, they can be penetrated into kidney lesions directly with the help of modern osmosis devices and penetrate through the meridians and collaterals on back.

On one hand, the effective integrants in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can inhibit the abnormal proliferation of the renal tubules. Therefore, they can stop the increase in cysts numbers.

On the other hand, Micro-Chinese Medicine can inactive the epithelia cells of cysts and prevent the cystic fluid accumulation. It can effectively stop the further enlargement of the cysts.

In addition, the medicines in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can improve blood circulation so as to increase oxgen and nutrients supply to kidneys thus stimulating the self-repairing of the impaired renal intrinsic cells.
As a result, the cysts in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) will stop increasing in numbers and size and gradually shrinking as well as the renal function will improve gradually.

How to Prevent Renal Damage in PKD

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disorder. Although there is no cure for PKD yet, early intervention and treatment can improve the individuals’ health and make the avoid developing Renal Failure.

How does PKD cause Renal Failure?

PKD is featured by numerous cysts usually growing on both kidneys. With age, the cysts will increase both in size and number. The cysts will oppress the surrounding healthy nephrons thus resulting in renal ischemia and anoxia. Just like people, if the nephrons can not get sufficient oxgen supply, they will die. Finally, the kidneys will fail completely. The completely necrotic kidneys are just like hard stones so the blood can not pass through them at all.

How to prevent renal damage in PKD?

The prognosis of PKD is extremely variable. The earlier they receive treatment, the better the prognosis will be. However, in the early stage of PKD, most of the patients do not have discomforts or symptoms at all so they do not take the disease seriously at all and miss the best treatment opportunity. In clinic, most of the patients with PKD have lost more than half of their renal function when they show noticeable symptoms.

In order to prevent renal damage in PKD, the treatment should primarily focus on inhibiting the enlargement of cysts.

Chinese herbal medicine has been used in treating PKD and showed an enormous therapeutic effect.

The enlargement of cysts is attributed to the secretion of cystic fluid by the lining cells of cysts. The effective integrants in Chinese herbal medicine can promote the functional transformation of the cysts thus making them lose secretion function.

Moreover, the effective medicine can dilate renal arteries. In this way, it can improve the blood supply and oxgen to kidneys so as to stop renal function decline.

If the patients with PKD can receive the above systemic treatment, they will be able to stop the kidney damage and avoid developing Renal Failure completely.

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and Headache

Headache is a common symptom in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Now I will share you a story, in which narrator who is a PKD suffer will tell you how headache occurs in PKD.

Not coincidentally, headaches started around the same time I was diagnosed with PKD. In fact, at that time, I did not know my PKD was associated with my increase in quantity and intensity of headaches.

I now know that PKD and headaches always go together. My doctor tells me that there are a number of reasons for headache for PKD patients such as high blood pressure. If it is related to high blood pressure, you should do your best to keep blood pressure within control. High blood pressure is an accelerator for renal function decline.

Not everyone who has PKD has reoccurring and/or bad headaches, but sadly many do. If you have a regular headache, you should take it seriously. It is a known fact that the patients with PKD have an increased likelihood of having cerebral aneurysm which is also a common reason for headache. If the cerebral aneurysm ruptures, it will lead to a life-threatening effect to you. Therefore, you should take MRI to find if your headache is related to it. For me, it has fortunately proven to be negative.

For my headache problem, my doctor just prescribes me some medications to relieving my pain. However, once I stop using it, it will reoccur very soon. I know painkillers are not eliminating the underling causes of my pain. What should I do? I don’s know.

Expert’s explanation:

In PKD, headache is mainly related to high blood pressure. To eliminate headache, the patients should lower blood pressure. However, medications can not keep the blood pressure within control effectively. High blood pressure in PKD is caused by renin-angiotensin system (RAS). The enlargement of cysts cause increased secretion of renin thus activating RAS. Therefore, to lower high blood pressure, the patients should take therapy focusing on shrinking enlarged cysts.

Polycystic Kidney Disease Basics,Symptoms and Complications

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys. The kidneys are two organs, each about the size of a fist, located in the upper part of a person's abdomen, toward the back. The kidneys filter wastes and extra fluid from the blood to form urine. They also regulate amounts of certain vital substances in the body. When cysts form in the kidneys, they are filled with fluid. PKD cysts can profoundly enlarge the kidneys while replacing much of the normal structure, resulting in reduced kidney function and leading to kidney failure.

When PKD causes kidneys to fail-which usually happens after many years-the patient requires dialysis or kidney transplantation. About one-half of people with the most common type of PKD progress to kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

PKD can also cause cysts in the liver and problems in other organs, such as blood vessels in the brain and heart. The number of cysts as well as the complications they cause help doctors distinguish PKD from the usually harmless "simple" cysts that often form in the kidneys in later years of life.

Two major inherited forms of PKD exist:

Autosomal dominant PKD is the most common inherited form. Symptoms usually develop between the ages of 30 and 40, but they can begin earlier, even in childhood. About 90 percent of all PKD cases are autosomal dominant PKD.

Autosomal recessive PKD is a rare inherited form. Symptoms of autosomal recessive PKD begin in the earliest months of life, even in the womb.

Polycystic kidney disease symptoms may include:

• High blood pressure
• Back or side pain
• Headache
• Increase in the size of your abdomen
• Blood in your urine
• Frequent urination
• Kidney stones
• Kidney failure

There are numerous complications associated with polycystic kidney disease including:

High blood pressure. Elevated blood pressure is a common complication of polycystic kidney disease. Untreated, high blood pressure can cause further damage to your kidneys and increase your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Loss of kidney function.

Progressive loss of kidney function is one of the most serious complications of polycystic kidney disease. Nearly half of those with the disease have kidney failure by age 60. If you have high blood pressure or blood or protein in your urine, you have a greater risk of kidney failure.

Pregnancy complications. Pregnancy is successful for most women with polycystic kidney disease. In some cases, however, women may develop a life-threatening disorder called preeclampsia. Those most at risk are women who have high blood pressure before they become pregnant.

Growth of cysts in the liver. The likelihood of developing liver cysts for someone with polycystic kidney disease increases with age. While both men and women develop cysts, women often develop larger cysts. Cyst growth may be aided by female hormones.

Development of an aneurysm in the brain. Localized enlargement of an artery in your brain can cause bleeding (hemorrhage) if it ruptures. People with polycystic kidney disease have a higher risk of aneurysm, especially those younger than age 50. The risk is higher if you have a family history of aneurysm or if you have uncontrolled high blood pressure.

Heart valve abnormalities. As many as one-quarter of adults with polycystic kidney disease develop mitral valve prolapse. When this happens, the valve no longer closes properly, which allows blood to leak backward.

Colon problems. Weaknesses and pouches or sacs in the wall of the colon (diverticulosis) may develop in people with polycystic kidney disease.

Chronic pain. Pain is a common symptom for people with polycystic kidney disease. It often occurs in your side or back. The pain can also be associated with a urinary tract infection or a kidney stone.