How to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease without dialysis

Dialysis is mistaken as the only option by many PKD patients. Actually, it is not true, because we can avoid kidney failure effectively with Polycystic Kidney Disease if there is timely diagnosis and effective medical treatment. Well then, how to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease without dialysis?
When it comes to the treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease, most of the patients will think about oral medications for high blood pressure, pain-killer for back pain and other tablets for proteinuria and high creatinine level.As a matter of fact, these medications all are used to control symptoms or normalize clinical indexes. None of them is applied to deal with cysts in kidney. Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney problem and it affects our kidney function. Therefore, when it develops to a certain stage, various symptoms like high blood pressure, blood urine and back pain will occur. Occurrence of these clinical manifestations indicates kidneys have been damaged and fail to maintain us a normal life. The root cause of these symptoms is decreased kidney function caused by enlarged cysts. Therefore, shrinking kidney cyst to improve kidney function is very necessary.
Dialysis is helpful for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients with completely damaged kidneys，but for these who has a certain kidney function, they can choose Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an alternative treatment which treats Polycystic Kidney Disease by shrinking cysts in kidney. Effective ingredients in micro-Chinese medicines have function to lower blood pressure outside the cyst, when there is pressure differences, fluid inside the cyst ooze out and consequently, kidney cysts become smaller.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy differs from surgery. It is painless and causes no side effects.What is more, it can solve problem from the root, so for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients who have no started dialysis, they can try about Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.

Something You Need to know about kidney failure

Chronic kidney function failure is the final result of various kidney disease. Even though chronic kidney is caused by different reasons, when the disease develop to a stage, that will exist some common mechanism. Various pathogeny lead to chronic kidney disease, and then cause kidney injured, losing kidney unit function, and reduce the number of the kidney unit. In order to make up them, and maintain the normal physiological function, the kidney unit will arise compensatory adaption, and aggravate its workload. Long-playing high load compensatory will make more and more kidney unit suffer damage gradually , GFR will decline gradually, and come to the final stage inevitably, then turn into renal uremia stage. So chronic kidney function failure should be found earlier. It is very important to inspect hazards earlier and interfere with the kidney function failure , reduce and delay it.
Among the different stage of chronic kidney failure, the clinical manifestation is also different. In the chronic kidney failure compensatory and early decompensation , patient may have no symptom, or only lack of power, soreness of waist, nocturia get more and some other mild comfortable. A few of patients decrease their appetite, etaboliaed acidosis or mild anemia. If patients realized earlier and treat the disease earlier, it will be better. But the as usual, patients often don’t attach great importance to that as the clinical feature is so light, and lead to the chronic kidney disease treat belated.

What are the symptoms of ADPKD

ADPKD is one of diseases that involves the whole body system. The followings are the general introduction about symptom of ADPKD.
1.Kidney Cyst: lots of ADPKD patients’ symptom is closely related to the cyst of kidney. Kidney cortex, medulla exist multiple fluid cyst, diameter differs from millimeter to centimeter, the size of the cyst and the number of the cyst are gradually increase along with the course of disease. Male patients with ADPKD have higher risk of developing big cysts compared with female patients.
2 Back pain: the common symptom for the patients is back pain or rib and abdomen pain. With the increase of age, back pain symptoms becomes obvious, and this symptom is more common among female patients. Acute Pain and sudden worsening of pain always indicate cyst rupture hemorrhage urinary obstruction resulted from stone or blood clot and concurrent infection. Increscent kidney or cyst pull capsule renal pedicle, oppress organ nearby and therefore lead to Chronic pain.
3.Blood urine : more than 90% of the patients have bleeding condition or macroscopic haematuria which are usually Idiopathic. It also can occur after dramatic movement or trauma. The causes of hematuria are cyst vascular rupture, stone infection or cancer and so on. Generally speaking, hematuria are self-limited,and usually disappear within 2 to 7 days. If bleed last more than one week or the patients with age over 50, doctors need to make sure the cysts are not cancerous.
4. High blood pressure: high blood pressure is one of the common symptoms of ADPKD in early stage. 50% of the young ADPKD patients with normal renal function have high blood pressure more than 140/90mmHg. Almost all the patients with advanced stage ADPKD have high blood pressure. The severity of the blood pressure is in proportion to the number of the cysts, the size of the cyst, as well as patients’ age.
5,kidney function damage, early kidney function damage often show as kidney function decline. Most of the patients can maintain normal kidney function in early stage. However, once kidney function decreases , GFR (Glomerular Filtration Rate) decreases at speed of 4.4~5.5ml/min every year, from impaired kidney function develops to end-stage renal disease within 10 years.
6. Others: 20% of the ADPKD patients have kidney stones which is mainly uric acid and (or) oxalic acid calcium stone. Urinary tract and cyst infection are the common complications, retrograde infection is the major route. Compared with the ordinary person, ADPKD patients with renal cancer cells often get invasion in the early days and their symptom is more obvious. Also, they are at high risk of developing bilateral sarcoma sample multicenter metastases
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Diet Information for Chronic Kidney Disease

Scientific diet is one of the necessary ways to treat chronic kidney disease, because scientific diet can relieve symptoms, reduce damage and improve the live level of the patients.
1. Low-protein diet in CKD
Reduce the content of the protein can improve the azotemia,relieve damages to kidney caused by proteinuria. It is also beneficial to deduce phosphorus in blood and relieve acidosis, because with the ingestion of the protein, some phosphorus and other inorganic acid ion can also come in. Generally speaking,0.6kg protein intake can satisfy people’s physiological need, so chronic kidney patients need to supply 30-60g protein. How to select protein food? patients need to give first place to fish, lean meat, chicken and milk, as far as possible to reduce food containing vegetable protein, for example peanut soybean and bean products, because vegetable protein has much non-essential amino acid. It is bad to ingest too much protein, as high protein intake can worsen proteinuria symptom.
 2.Caloric intake in Chronic Kidney Disease
Ingesting enough carbohydrate helps to offer enough heat which can help to reduce protein consumption and thus improve azotemia. It also can take full advantage of amino acid with the low protein dietary. 125.6J/kg of heat need to be offered to our body through staple food everyday. The main supplying food is rice wheat and corn that contain enough carbohydrate. In addition, sweet potato, potato, apple, lotus root also have abundant carbohydrate, we can serve as replenish food, satisfy our hunger between the meal.
3. High vitamin diet for CKD patients
chronic kidney patients often has vitamin deficiency, on one hand that is related to dietary restriction, on the other hand, it is related to disease supersession. So patients need to gain enough vitamin, especially vitamin B, vitamin C, folic acid and so on. Fruit and vegetable have abundant vitamin and common fruits and vegetables include tomato, rape, chives, oranges, hawthorn and so on, patients need to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in daily life.
The above is the introduction about diet for Chronic Kidney Disease. If you are not clearly about it, please feel free to consult us and we will try our best to help you.

Symptoms and Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a typical chronic genetic kidney problem. With different illness conditions, diet, nursing care,treatment method and living style, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients usually have different symptoms and prognosis. Now, let's have a look about symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in different stages.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in early stage
PKD patients may suffer no symptoms in early stage. PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) affects kidney function with the enlargement of kidney cysts. In early stage, kidney cysts are usually very small and cause no kidney damages. In this case, patients always feel nothing different and uncomfortable. For people with PKD in early stage, if they can avoid kidney damages with medical treatment, their prognosis will be very good as they can live a normal life with normal kidney function.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in developing stage
In cases of PKD, more and more cysts appear over time. These cysts enlarge and oppress surrounding kidney tissues, which make these kidney tissues unable in displaying function. Under such a condition, various symptoms like high blood pressure, back pain, blood urine, enlarged kidney, repeated infection and proteinuria will appear. At that time,although kidney function has been impaired, if PKD patients stop the progression of PKD, their prognosis can be improved greatly.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in advanced stage
When PKD develops to advanced stage, patients will be at high risk to develop complications like kidney stone, polycystic liver and brain aneurysm. In this stage, effective treatment will help to lower your risk of developing these terrible complications.
Symptoms and prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease in kidney failure stage
One end stage kidney failure is diagnosed, patients will be asked to start dialysis or kidney transplant, both of which can help to clear toxins from the blood. Dialysis and kidney transplant are the two most traditional medical methods for kidney failure patients to improve their life expectancy and prolong their life span,but here I want to say, although dialysis and kidney transplant are helpful to some extent, they are not the only two options for PKD patients, as an alternative treatment has been created to help PKD patients recently.

Foods to Avoid with Polycystic Kidney Disease

The right diet can slow down the progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease.PKD is a chronic kidney disorder with different sizes of cysts in the kidney. PKD affect kidney function by damaging kidney tissues, which can push PKD into kidney failure step by step. Since a right diet can help to delay kidney failure, it is necessary for us to change our diet if we are unfortunately diagnosed with PKD.Well then, what foods should we avoid with PKD?
1. Reduce animal proteins. Limit animal products to occasional broths, poultry, fish, low-fat cheese and egg whites, keeping quantities to 3 oz. per day or less.Foods like fish and egg white contain high quality protein which can meet the demand of our body and meanwhile produce less wastes. Therefore, it is helpful for PKD patients to limit protein intake and at the same time ingest some high quality protein.
2.Avoid excess amounts of salt, which causes your blood pressure to rise. This includes products like processed foods, soups, chips and soy sauce.
3. Drink much more water. Water helps to flush out waste products and also helps to avoid PKD complications like dehydration and kidney stones. In addition, if you are a PKD patient, please remember to avoid caffeine as it can cause dehydration. Caffeine is usually found in coffee, chocolate, black tea, green tea, white tea, cola and even some decaf products.
4. If possible, please stay far away from alcohol. Although drinking less alcohol causes no obvious influence on illness condition, it does not mean PKD patients can drink alcohol casually.
5. PKD patients may also suffer from high phosphorus when PKD develops to advanced stage.Under such a condition, foods with high phosphorus like nuts and bacon should be avoided.
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should adjust their diet on the basis of their illness condition. Therefore, the above is the general introduction about about PKD diet. If you want to know the exact recipe for you, please feel free to consult us or leaving message to us.

How to Deal with Back Pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease

Different from other types of kidney problem like Nephrotic Syndrome, Polycystic Kidney Disease can bring patients severe back pain. Sometimes the pain is unbearable and patients can not concentrate on what they are doing. Well then, how does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause back pain and how to deal with pain caused by PKD?
How does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause back pain?
1.In cases of Polycystic Kidney Disease, patients usually suffer from sudden or acute back pain when there are infected cysts, urinary tract infection, a bursting cyst or kidney stones.
2.People with ADPKD often get persistent or chronic flank, lower back and/or abdominal pain that is not related to infection, bleeding into a cyst, or a kidney stone. This chronic pain is caused by developing cysts, pressure by cysts against other organs, changes in the back muscles and the spine due to enlarging cysts.
How to deal with back pain caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease?
An effective treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease should be able to help patients remitting symptoms. The followings are the common methods to alleviate kidney pain in PKD.
1. In general, drug treatment for pain should start with small doses of a weaker painkiller, gradually increasing to stronger medication as needed. Common medications for PKD include Paracetamol, No-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, Codeine,Antidepressants, and Tramadol and so on.
2. Treatment Polycystic Kidney Disease as a whole. In most of the cases, PKD patients feel pain in the location of kidney because of enlarged cysts. There are nerves in renal capsule which will be pulled when kidney cysts enlarge to a certain size. In this light, shrinking kidney cyst is very important. Kidney cyst enlarges with the increase of cystic fluids, so as long as we reduce fluids inside the cyst, kidney cyst is shrunk. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an alternative treatment for PKD, which treats PKD by making pressure difference. It is natural and painless, so if you want to get kidney cysts shrunk, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will be a good choice.
Need more about kidney pain in Polycystic Kidney Disease and treatment for PKD, please feel free to consult us. We are glad to help you solve any problems.