The Common Symptoms of PKD

What are the common symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD)? PKD is a type of genetic kidney disease and has the characteristic of familial aggregation. It brings great suffering to the patients and their families. But for its specific pathogenesis, there isn't obvious symptoms and it is not easy to find this disease in the early stage. During the later stage, with the enlargement of cysts, the increase of cysts pressure and infection and other factors, there will be some symptoms of this disease. Knowing these common symptoms will help the patients find this disease in time.

What are the common symptoms of PKD?

1, proteinuria: but the urine protein is little, usually the amount of urine protein of 24 hours' urine is less than 2g and usually the amount of urine protein won't lead to Nephrotic Syndrome.

2, hematuria: it can express as gross hematuria or microscopic hematuria. The attack of hematuria has the characteristic of periodicity and when it attacks, the pain will be more serious. It can be aggravated by strenuous exercise, injuries and infections. The cause of hematuria is that the various arteries under the cysts wall are affected by the pressure and infections to rupture or to be over-stretched.

3, hypertension: the cysts will gradually press kidney with their enlargement and cause the ischemia of kidney, which cause the increase of renin secretion and further cause hypertension. There are more than 50 percent of patients have the symptom of hypertension when their renal function is still normal. When the renal function decreases, the morbidity of hypertension will be higher.

4, abdominal phymas: sometimes, the abdominal phynas are the main reasons for patients to see a doctor. About 60-80 percent of patients' swollen kidneys can be touched. Generally speaking, the bigger the swollen kidney is, the worse the renal function is.

5, pain and discomfort of waist and abdomen: the main cause of this is that the enlarged cysts lead to the increase of water amount in kidney, which make the kidney heavier or cause the change of kidney shape. And then the heavier kidney will pull the organs near by. The characteristic of the pain is dull pain. The pain may be unilateral or bilateral and radiate downward or to the back. If the cysts are infected or there is hematuria, the pain will be more serious. There may be renal colic if the urinary tract is blocked by stones or clottages after hematuria.


The above mentioned symptoms of PKD are common in clinical. Learning something about these can help you find this disease and adopt proper treatment according to your symptoms. As for the treatments of PKD, a brand new therapy has been developed out by shijiazhuang kidney disease hospital-- Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It combines the traditional Chinese medicine with the most advanced technology in the world and forms a unique curative system: reduce cysts pressure, contract the cysts, repair the damaged renal function and rebuild the renal structure. By this therapy, patients have no need to have operations and can control the cysts just by medicine, which reduce the pain of patients greatly. So it is completely possible for PKD patients to lead a normal life like healthy people if the patients adopt proper treatment and control the cysts well. If you have more questions of PKD, please contact us on-line.