How to Treat Complications of PKD Patients

With cysts growing, PKD patients can get a series of complications which can worsen illness condition further. For this reason, treating complications of PKD is especially important.

PKD is a kind of hereditary disease, with cysts with various sizes spreading the whole kidney. These cysts grow with age, which can compress healthy kidneys and damage renal structure, reducing nephron numbers that can secrete urine. With time going, kidney is so injured that it can not maintain human normal life, and then Uremia appear.

Main complications of PKD are High Blood Pressure, Haematuria, kidney enlargement and urinary tract infection. Waist pain and fever can be found if cysts are bleeding. Patients may get aching pain if Uronephrosis happen, and colic and Haematuria can be found if there is complicated Stone. If effective treatment can not be taken in time, with illness condition worsening, end stage PKD patients can only depend on Dialysis to maintain life.

The root cause of complications of PKD patients is growing cysts, so complications of PKD patients should be treated starting with shrinking cysts. Western Medicine can be taken to treat related symptoms, while Chinese Medicine should be taken to treat this disease from its root which means that inhibiting cysts growing tendency. Chinese Medicine can eliminate activities of cystic epithelial cells and prevent them secreting cyst fluid. Therefore, cysts can stay in this stage and stop growing.

However, we can not let existing cysts stay there forever. So proper medicine should be taken to increase permeability of cyst wall and recycle cyst fluid, excreting these fluids out of body with urine. This is treating cysts from its primary cause. After healing, this disease seldom relapses.


Inhibiting cysts growing and shrinking developed cysts can control this disease effectively. Complications of PKD patients can also be controlled effectively, because root cause—cysts, is removed.