Will Polycystic Kidney Disease Progress to Renal Failure Stage

Nearly all patients worried whether this disease would progress to renal failure stage when they are first found to have Polycystic Kidney Disease. As we all know, this disease is a kind of hereditary disease. For this reason, hospitals and doctors do not offer treatments until this disease develop into renal failure stage. In another word, patients can do nothing except waiting for this disease aggravating into renal failure and then accepting dialysis or kidney transplant. Most patients give up treatment because there is no other option for them. However, Will Polycystic Kidney Disease be certainly developed into renal failure?

As we all know, the main reason of Polycystic Kidney Disease aggravation is cysts enlargement which can produce great pressure on kidney, causing kidney damage gradually. So if we want to stop the process of this disease, we should stop cysts enlargement firstly. Why there are cysts and why the cysts can enlarge?
Under the action of gene and other external factors, epithelial cells of renal tubule can turn into epithelial cells of cyst wall after phenotype change and then they begin to have the function of secreting cyst fluid. So cysts will keep enlarging from time to time. So once we can reduce the secretion of the cysts fluid, the cysts will not enlarge in the future. As a result, this disease may not develop into renal failure. And as a result, patients may not accept dialysis or transplant in the future.

Based on the above, Micro-Chinese Medicine is adopted to inhibit the activity of epithelial cells of cyst wall so that cyst fluid secretion can be reduced, thus achieving the goal of stop cysts enlargement. Besides, through activating blood circulation and improving the permeability of cyst wall, this treatment can increase the reabsorption of cyst fluid. Then cysts can be shrunk gradually through these two aspects. Aiming to deal with the damage caused by cysts, Immunotherapy are used. This treatment has excellent effect on stopping the progress of Polycystic Kidney Disease, and on this basis, kidney function can have an improvement on a certain extent.


Here, we can know that there is a new option for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients and this option can help them avoid this disease progressing into renal failure stage. If you need more details about this treatment, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us online.

Rehabilitation of Patients with Proteinuria

Proteinuria is one of the classical symptoms of kidney disease. But for the patients of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), proteinuria is not that common. And even if the Polycystic Kidney Disease paitents have proteinuria, the amount of protein is not very much. However, the amount of the leaked protein can’t reflect the severity of disease accurately.

Patient of slight chronic kidney disease have small amount of protein, while it doesn’t mean the slight renal damage. likewise, large amount of urine protein doesn’t exactly mean the severe renal damage. For example, for patients with minimal change nephritis or mild mesangial proliferative glomerulonphritis, the pathology change of the kidneys is slight, while the urine protein amount can be several gγrams to more than ten grams.

Generally speaking, urine protein can be divided in to selective proteinuria and non-selective proteinuria. Selective proteinuria means that the electrophoresis of the protein is characterized by the micro-molecular protein, such as albumin, α1globulin, transferrin and γ globulin.

For patients of minimal change nephritis or mild mesangial proliferative glomerulonphritis and parts of patients with mesangial proliferative glomerulonphritis and focal stage sclerosis nephritis, their proteinuria usually is selective proteinuria, which means the damage to the glomerulus filtration membrane is relatively slight.

For the non-selective proteinuria, it is featured by both micro-molecular protein and macro-molecular protein, which means the damage to the glomerulus filtration membrane is severe.

So the patients wonder whether they can recover if the proteinuria is very severe.

The experts remain that the amount of the urine protein can’t reflect the damage level of the kidneys exactly, and sometimes they aren’t in proportion to each other. So the treatment effects are determined by the types and condition of renal damage and the renal function.


Besides, the treatment effects are also related to whether the patients can cooperate with doctor well, whether prevent from the relapse factors(such as cold, tiredness, infection and so on) well, whether they can insist on treatment and prevent from the medicines with renal toxicity.

Can Patients with Large Amount of Proteinuria Supply Protein by Diets

Generally, patients of proteinuria can supply some of the protein by proper food captaining protein. The thought of that kidney disease patients can’t eat food containing protein is wrong and sided. Even if the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)develops to the end stage of renal failure, the patients are suggested to adopt proper high quality of low protein diet.

For the patients with kidney disease, the intake of protein per day should be 0.6-0.8g/kg weight. If the patients are in the end stage of renal failure, especially for patients on peritoneal dialysis, the intake of protein should increase properly, and the amount should be about 1.2-1.5g/kg weight. As for patients of nephritic syndrome, they will lose large amount of protein every day. If their renal functions are still normal, it is suggested to take high protein diets to rectify the hypoproteinemia and relieve the edema. But make sure the protein should be high quality protein.

When the patients have azotemia or early stage of renal insufficiency, they should restrain the intake of protein. Or this will accelerate the development of the kidney disease.


In a word, the diets differ from the different disease and different conditions. When the patients found they have large amount of proteinuria, they shouldn’t be too scared; when the patients’ proteinuria is not very sever, they shouldn’t neglect it. All the patients should go to see the doctor to determine the illness condition and make reasonable treatment schedule. Only by repairing the damaged renal function from the pathology damage angle can the patients eliminate the proteinuria.

Suffering of Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease

After seeing so much suffering of patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) with my own eyes, sometimes I feel so anxious for them. Some of the patients are children. They can’t enjoy the pleasure of childhood because of this disease. They are suffering from the pain brought by this disease while other children are playing outside. Some of the patients are young men or women, for this disease, they may be tortured by the worrying of the attack of this disease and the worrying about transmitting to their children.

Yes, sometimes the suffering of the thought tortures the patients more than that of the body. Sometimes, however, what makes me very anxious is that the patients just didn’t understand the severity of their illness condition. In some cases, the patients naively believe good diets can cure their disease. Diets really do play an important role for the disease. But diets just can play external adjuvant function instead of treating the damaged kidney. As the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease has the characteristic of slow progression, especially during the early stage. So, many patients make light of this disease even they have known they have this disease. During the early stage, the symptoms of this disease are not so obvious. So, people believe that there is no need treat it.

And this phenomenon is partly determined by the treatment measures and treatment practices. In most countries, for the kidney disease, the common treatment measures are hormone, immune agents, cytotoxic drugs. Then the following measures with the development of kidney diseases are dialysis and kidney transplant.

In fact, if the patients can treat this disease with correct attitude, they can avoid such suffering.

So first, treat this disease with correct attitude; second, pay attention to the symptoms and familial medical history of this disease so that you can find it as early as possible; third, take early and effective treatment measures in time no matter whether your condition is slight or severe.


I really hope every patient can avoid the suffering this disease, so if there is anything I can do for you or you have any questions, please send an email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.

Why Polycystic Kidney Disease Patient Will Have High Blood Pressure

With illness condition progressing, most of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients will have a high blood pressure which is a common symptom of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, but is also commonly neglected by patients. But why patients will have high blood pressure?

Actually, high blood pressure caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease is much more serious than the primary high blood pressure. Because once high blood pressure happens, it means the further aggravation of this disease. Due to various internal and external factors, cysts of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients keep enlarging and they will produce pressure on surrounding kidney tissue and blood vessel, resulting in less blood flow in local part. The receptor in kidney will have a reaction of producing more rennin after getting the signal of less blood flow. As a result, the concentration of Angiotensin will increase, and then blood vessel will shrink so that blood pressure increases. High blood pressure and kidney function damage affect each other mutually. For this reason, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients must control their blood pressure within a normal range.

In another word, once Polycystic Kidney Disease patients begin to have the symptom of high blood pressure, it means their kidney function is about to decline or have already declined. Therefore, high blood pressure can be considered as an obvious symptom that shows the disease progressing from stage 2 to stage 3. So patients should pat high attention on their blood pressure and accept treatment as early as possibly with the purpose of avoiding further kidney function damage.


However, only control blood pressure is not enough. If kidney function can not be improved, blood pressure will not keep steady even if we have adopted to control blood pressure because kidney damage which is the real reason of blood pressure increasing is not repaired. So on one hand, we should control blood pressure effectively, and on the other, we should also accept treatment to repair kidney damage actively so that both kidney and blood pressure can be in a steady condition. If you need more information about this, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us online directly.

Several Causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease

As for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, so many cysts grow in kidney cortex and kidney medulla and most of the patients have a family history of this disease. However, what causes can affect this disease. Actually, many factors, internal or external, can affect the occurrence of this disease. Here, in this article there is a simple list of these main factors.

Ⅰ. Internal factors:

Firstly, gene defect is one of the internal causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease. This is also the reason why most Polycystic Kidney Disease patients will have a family history. If there is family member who have this disease, the other family members should be cautious about this disease.

Secondly, gene mutation: some patients get PKD neither from inheritance. They get the disease due to gene mutation in embryo forming stage. During this stage, due to various factors, gene mutation happens, causing Polycystic Kidney Disease. Though this condition seldom happens, it still has the possibility. Therefore, some PKD patients may not have hereditary history.

Ⅱ. External factors:

Firstly, infections can cause abnormal change to body environment, which is beneficial to induce cystic gene mutation. Besides, infections on any part of body can get into kidney with blood, affecting cysts growth. If cysts were infected, besides clinical symptoms aggravation, it can speed up cysts growing rate and damage renal function further. Common infections include upper respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection, gastrointestinal infection, skin infection, trauma infection and apparatus infection, etc.

Secondly, toxin can damage various cellular organic tissues, resulting in disease happening or even life threatening. Besides, toxin is also one of the main reasons of gene mutation and congenital dysplasia. Some common toxins include agricultural chemicals, some chemical agents, radiation as well as pollution and so on. In addition, some medicines are nephrotoxic. These medicines can cause renal injury if they are used improperly.


Polycystic Kidney Disease is the interaction of congenital and acquired factors. We can only control acquired factors actively because we can not change congenital factors. If you need more information about this, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us online.

What does a Cold Do with Polycystic Kidney Disease

For patients with the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), cold is an important factor that can affect the patient’s condition. Many patients’ condition is aggravated because of the cold. So what does a cold do with polycystic kidney disease?

Under the stimulation of various Infectious agents, such as oxygen radical, virus, germ, dust and so on, the body's own immune system will be activated and generate inflammatory response to resist the foreign attack, which is the actively “justifiable defense” carried out by our own organism body. Then our kidneys will generate new types of antigen antibody reaction, then this will lead to large amount of immune complex to deposit in the kidney blood vessels, which will cause the ischemia and anemia of the kidneys. When the kidney encounters continuous and repeating foreign attacks, it will be impossible for the body do resist so many attacks. Gradually, there will be the damage to the tissues and lead to the further damage to the kidney.

The better choice for polycystic kidney disease patients is to prevent from catching a cold, instead of treat the cold after the catching it. Then how to prevent from catching a cold?

1, you can boil the vinegar for about 15-20 minutes in the room and make use of the steam of the vinegar to restrain or kill the germs in the room.

2, when you come out in the morning or in the evening, you can wipe some cooling ointment or essential balm on the two sides of the forehead and the area of lips and mouth, which can help you prevent from catching a cold.

3, every morning, wash your face with cold water; every evening, wash your foot with hot water.

4, at the beginning of having a cold, you can blow your face with the warm wind by hair drier for about 3-5 minutes, which can relieve the symptoms and accelerate the recovery of the cold.

5, drink the ginger and sugar tea which is made by boiling water with proper amount of ginger and brown sugar.

6, pour the boiling water into a cup, then take deep breathing and inhale the hot steam in until the water become cold, and this method has very good effects on the beginning of a cold.

7, massage: rub your two hands with each other until they get warm, then massage the Yingxiang acupuncture point (locating within the nasal fossa) with your warm palms for about ten times.

8, during the Influenza season, you can take some medicine as prevention in advance.

9, after every meal, rinse the mouth with light salt brine to eliminate the oral bacteria.


Hope the information can help you. More information, please send email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult online.