Management of Polycystic Kidney Disease Symptoms

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kidney disorder that passed down through families (inherited), usually as an autosomal dominant trait. For a person affected by PKD, there are multiple cysts forming on the kidneys, causing them to become enlarged.

PKD Symptoms

In addition to the kidney damage, the fluid in the cysts may become infected, causing pain in the back and abdomen, and triggering fever. The burst of cysts can also lead to pain, or blood in the urine.

Patients may not develop symptoms for a few decades. Then they do arise, they may include:

▪ Abdominal pain or tenderness
▪ Hematuria, or blood in the urine
▪ Excess urination at night
▪ Flank pain on one or both sides
▪ High blood pressure, or hypertension
▪ Joint pain
▪ Drowsiness
▪ Nail abnormalities
▪ Painful menstruation

Management of PKD Symptoms

The goal of western medicine treatment is to control PKD symptoms:

Controlling high blood pressure is the most important aspect of treatment. The treatment include: 1) Blood pressure medicines; 2) Diuretics; 3) Low-salt diet.
Appropriate antibiotics can be prescribed to treat any urinary tract infection.
Cysts that are painful, infected, bleeding, or causing an obstruction may need to be drained.

These symptomatic treatments are helpful in discomforts remission, but they fail to prevent the progression of PKD. Unfortunately, most people will develop into end-stage renal disease.


However, patients should be aware of the fact that with prompt standard treatment, we can eliminate PKD symptoms, stop the progression of the disease and avoid kidney failure. Then, they can regain a normal life.

Causes of Bilateral Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of hereditary Kidney Disease with great damage, and frequently related to bilateral kidneys. Besides hereditary factors, there are still some other factors that can cause Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Epithelial cells of renal tubule and cells on cyst wall can be changed by cyst gene, which can cause the following results:

Ⅰ. Cyst gene can affect Na-K-ATPase of tubule epithelial cells, which can increase inner fluid of renal tubule and make cells on cyst wall secrete fluid.
Ⅱ. Epithelial cells of renal tubule proliferate continuously, forming polypoid lesion which can cause renal tubule obstruction, and the obstruction can lead to fluid retention which can bulge tubule, and then cysts form.

Ⅲ. Infections and toxin can act on renal tubule, which can activate cyst gene and change tubule cells metabolism, or even cause epithelial cells apoptosis. Apoptosis cells can also lead to obstruction after they slough off.

Ⅳ.Epithelial cells can secrete series of bioactive substances which can increase cyst fluid secretion.

Ⅴ. Cyst gene can lead to abnormal Extracellular Matrix and change the condition of basement membrane and tubule wall, which can provide a favorable environment for cyst growth.

Micro-Chinese Medicine is a distinctive Chinese Medicine Treatment, which can treat the disease from its primary cause, namely Renal Fibrosis. It mainly treats this disease by the following methods.

Firstly, Micro-Chinese Medicine takes the medication way of micronized Chinese Medicine combined with external osmosis on renal area. Smashing and decoction are adopted in the process of Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment. While our hospital takes high-technology to micronize medicine into more refined powder.
Through this method, medicine can be absorbed easily. Besides, active substances of Chinese Medicine can be sent into renal lesion directly by the method of external osmosis on renal area, which can get a higher medicine utilization rate.


Secondly, mainly depending on Micro-Chinese Medicine and puting Western Medicine in a supportive role is the treatment principle that our hospital insists. As for PKD patients who suffer from Hypertension and Anemia, they need take Western Medicine to control their symptoms in order to make Micro-Chinese Medicine play a more effective role in recovering renal inherent cells and inhibiting secretion of cyst fluid.

Routine Treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of terrible hereditary disease. It causes damage to renal parenchyma, and then renal function abnormality happens. When kidney lost their function of eliminating body wastes, Uremia which is a threat to human life appears due to toxin accumulation in human body.

Many treatments can be used to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. Among these treatment methods, Western Medicine treatment is an adjutant treatment of operation. As for Western Medicine Treatment, it usually treats the disease starting with treating symptoms. For example, relevant antibiotics are used to deal with Haematuria and complicated infection; hypotensor is taken to reduce High Blood Pressure and related medicines are used to decrease creatinine and urea nitrogen.

Some routine treatments of Polycystic Kidney Disease can be listed as follows:
Firstly, dialysis and Kidney Transplantation. Dialysis, especially Hemodialysis, should be taken timely if illness condition develops into End Stage Renal Failure. Surviving rate of Kidney Transplantation is some equal to other operation, but due to complicated disease, problem of post-operation can be difficult to solve, which can affect operative effect.

Secondly, operation. Operation is a normal treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease, with the purpose of removing big cysts by surgical operation. With big cysts being removed, more space is left for smaller cysts. When smaller cysts grow up, they can compress kidney again. This treatment method can not recover Polycystic Kidney Disease. What’s more, it brings new injury to patients’ body and spirit. Symptoms of most PKD patients appear again about 6 months after operation, and illness condition can be worse than before with rapid aggravated renal function.

Thirdly, infections that happen to renal parenchyma and inner cyst are main complications of PKD, and combined complication of antibiotic is used to deal with them.


Fourthly, treating High Blood Pressure. Activation of renal ischemia and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is main reason of High Blood Pressure, and hypotensor is taken on this basis.

Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Bleeding may happen to internal cysts of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, and patients may feel grievous painful if bleeding happens in a sudden. Bleeding may be caused by complicated cancer on cyst wall. Therefore, besides treating Polycystic Kidney Disease actively, taking proper and timely treatment to cure complications is also important. Main complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients can be listed as followed:

Firstly, Kidney Stone and internal kidney calcification: When patients get a stronger pain, colic or gross Haematuria, they may have the possibility of suffering Kidney Stones.

Secondly, urinary tract infection: complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease include cystitis, nephropyelitis, cyst infection and abscess around kidney. If Leukocyte Cylindruria and rapid response to routine anti-inflammatory treatment happen among complications of PKD, it is beneficial to diagnose nephropyelitis. While positive hemoculture and local pressing pain mostly refer to cyst infection. Infectious cysts can be found through CT examination.

Thirdly, cyst cancerization: whether cysts can turn to caner or not is still disputed. If patients suffer from complications of PKD get pain on renal region or Haematuria change, and they have a losing weight and increasing blood deposit as well as anemia not equal to kidney function or globalism, patients should be cautious of complicated renal cancer. At this moment, patients should receive CT examination in time, and renoarteriography can be taken if necessary.

If cysts of PKD patients is located at low position of kidney and very close to ureter, complications of PKD patients can worsen hydronephros. And pressure caused by urine on renal pelvis can cause pain on back. Besides, this can lead to renal infection.


PKD patients should receive effective treatment actively in order to prevent complications happening. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has a good therapeutic effect on treating PKD. It avoids liver injury caused by gastrointestinal tract stimulation from oral medicine. During the process of Micro-Chinese Medicine treating OKD, Chinese Medicine can arrive at renal lesion directly and local high medicine concentration can play a more effective role in treating this disease. Through this method, cyst fluid can be recycled more quickly, which can reduce cyst size and cystic pressure on kidney as well as relieve renal injury. Besides, Micro-Chinese Medicine can protect remained healthy nephron and repair renal function gradually. Meanwhile, some Western Medicine can be taken to prevent inflammation, which can offer a beneficial environment for Chinese Medicine to play its function fully. What’s more, Micro-Chinese Medicine has no side effect with less recurrence.

Diet Principle for Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients in Spring

Spring is a season with more wind and extreme dry weather. In this time, patients should pay high attention on diet in order to avoid worsening illness condition or cause recurrence. In spring, the following points should be noted to PKD patients.

Polluted food is easy to cause gastrointestinal disease or even poisoning which can threaten life. Therefore, patients should pay more attention on food cleanness, trying to avoid eating food outside, especially food of street stalls.
Meal amount is also limited for PKD patients. For example, if patients eat too less, they can suffer from malnutrition, while too much food intake can be easily damage digestive function of spleen and stomach, causing obstruction in blood and Qi. Therefore, patients should have a proper diet in order to keep necessary energy and nutrition.

PKD patients should have a diet with low salt and low fat. Spicy food, beef, mutton and animal viscera should be avoided. More fresh vegetable and fruits are beneficial for patients’ health. Patients should check their renal function regularly in order to prevent renal injury.

PKD patients should avoid cold and uncooked food which can injure Yang. Patients should take a proper diet according to their illness condition.

Basically, PKD patients should have a light diet with low protein. Besides, water intake should also be limited in order to prevent night urine retention.


Besides diet, PKD patients should also have a proper rest and avoid tiredness.

Complications of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of hereditary Kidney Disease. Once cysts grow bigger, they will compress kidneys and lead to damage to kidneys, causing a series of complications.

Firstly, Nephropyelitis: it is a common complication of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Patients may have no symptoms sometimes, and there is very little or even no pyocyte in urine.

Secondly, cyst infection: it can cause pain and pressing pain on kidney region. Patients may also have symptoms of fever.

Thirdly, Haematuria: seldom cases can have symptom of active and continuous gross Haematuria which may threaten patients’ life.

Prognosis and prevention of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease: patients who get clinical symptoms of PKD at 35 to 40 years old can have a relative better prognosis.


Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat PKD effectively through dilating blood vessel, activating renal blood circulation and protect remained healthy nephron. Active substances of Chinese Medicine can arrive at renal lesion directly, which can make medicine play maximum function. Then injured kidney can be repaired and renal function can be recovered gradually.

Pathogenesis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of hereditary Kidney Disease that many cysts grow in renal cortex and renal medulla, with characteristic of familial aggregation. So many reasons can cause Polycystic Kidney Disease, including congenital hereditary factors and acquired factors.

Ⅰ. Congenital factors of Polycystic Kidney Disease:

Firstly, congenital dysplasia is one of the causes of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Congenital dysplasia can cause many diseases. As for cystic Kidney Disease, it may cause sponge kidney, dysplasia Polycystic Kidney Disease and other Kidney Diseases. Gene of congenital dysplasia patients is generally normal. So it is different from gene inheritance and gene mutation.

Secondly, gene mutation: as for Polycystic Kidney Disease, most patients are inherited this disease from their parents gene, divided into Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease. However, some patients get PKD neither from inheritance nor from congenital dysplasia. 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. Through this condition seldom happens, it still has the possibility. Therefore, some PKD patients may not have hereditary history.

Ⅱ. Acquired factors of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Firstly, various infections: infections can cause abnormal change to organ internal environment, which is beneficial for cystic gene mutation to happen. Then activity of cysts internal factors increases, promoting cysts formation. 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. it means that both bacterial infection and virus infection can affect cysts greatly.

Secondly, toxin: toxin accumulated in body can damage various cellular organic tissue, resulting in disease happening or even threat to life. 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.


Because Polycystic Kidney Disease is the interaction of congenital and acquired factors, we can control acquired factors actively on the condition that congenital factors can not be changed. Patients should pay more attention on daily living regulation and diet in order to prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease happening.

How to Prevent Renal Failure in Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of congenital hereditary disease, mainly expressed by various sized cysts in bilateral kidneys, which can enlarge kidney obviously and cause shape abnormality to kidneys. With illness development, cysts grow bigger and more and finally Renal Functional Failure appears due to great damage of renal tissue. Well then, how to preventing Renal Failure happening in the course of PKD.

Firstly, discover illness condition as early as possible. PKD has a hereditary tendency, with equal incidence to both male and female. For this reason, there may be several family members suffering from PKD at the same time in a family with PKD history. PKD always happens among patients who are at middle age. Even some patients do not realize this disease until symptoms of Renal Function Failure appear.

Secondly, preventing and treating complications early. High Blood Pressure, urinary tract infection and cyst rupture are common among complications of PKD. Meantime, these complications are also significant factors inducing and worsening renal function damage. Therefore, these complications should be treated and controlled in time. When choosing medicine, patients should be care about nephrotoxic medicine.

Thirdly, Chinese Medicine treatment: Chinese Medicine has a good effect on treating Chronic Renal Function Failure, especially on treating early or middle stage patients. Chinese Medicine can improve patients’ clinical condition obviously and control illness development as well as reduce serum creatinine and urea nitrogen.

Fourthly, family care and nursing: Renal Function Failure of PKD is a kind of chronic progressive developing disease. It may be worsened by mood swings, extreme tiredness or improper diet as well as trauma and other related factors. Therefore, patients should keep a happy mood and adjust their work and rest properly as well as build confidence to overcome this disease and cooperate with treatment actively. As for diet principle, patients should take a light and fresh diet with rich nutrition. More fruit is OK. Besides, patients should limit their protein intake properly and avoid icy, uncooked and spicy food. Cigarette and alcohol are forbidden. If patients suffer from serious Hypertensive Edema, they should limited sodium salt intake. in addition, patients should take some exercise, but be cautious about compress on waist and abdomen in order to prevent cysts rupture. Patients suffering from serious illness condition should take a bed rest.


Fifthly, Kidney Replacement Therapy: due to renal function decline seriously, patients who are in late stage Renal Function Failure of PKD usually have a really bad reaction to medicine. Besides, these patients’ clinical symptoms worsen gradually and illness condition is so dangerous that Kidney Replacement Therapy, Hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, should be considered. Abdominal cavity reduces because patients’ kidneys enlarge obviously. Under such circumstances, peritoneal dialysis nearly has no effect, so hemodialysis is taken normally. As for patients with continuous bleeding or uncontrolled blood pressure, surgery operation can be considered to remove kidney. Kidney Transplant can be taken if possible.

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Take Exercise

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease take exercise? This is a puzzling problem for PKD patients. According to this problem, specialists on Kidney Disease notice that PKD patients can take physical exercise properly and scientifically, but excessive exercise is forbidden. As for PKD patients, which standard of daily exercise and work can not affect their body health? Normally, this depends on patients’ individual illness condition. Generally speaking, there are very few problems before patients are 30 years old. Though cysts of most PKD patients begin to compress each other, the pressure caused by cysts is tiny in this period. So patients can take some safe exercise at this moment, but crashing exercise like basketball should be avoided. Usual light exercise can not affect kidneys normally.

If patients are about 40 years old, they should pay more attention on daily work and life. Because cysts produce larger pressure in this period and strenuous exercise usually bring cyst rupture to patients. For this reason, patients should avoid pressure or collision on kidney region. Especially for a housewife, they should be more cautious when she is looking after a baby in order to prevent baby kicking her kidney region.

As for patients who had suffered from Haematuria before, they are required to pay more attention on their daily activity, because cysts of these patients are much easier to get cyst rupture. In order to prevent Haematuria recurrence, patients should take some exercise with less bending angle and lighter strength burn. Besides, these patients should take chairs with similar height of their knee when they are sitting. Walking and slow run can be taken as main morning exercise.


In a word, PKD patients who want to take some exercise should take a proper exercise volume and avoid excessive activity. Besides, the most important thing is to treat PKD in time and control cysts growing. Only in this way, PKD patients can have a normal life as other healthy person.

Mental Care of Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

Polycystic Kidney Disease should pay more attention on mental care. But why? Actually, one person’s mental condition has great influence on occurrence, development and treatment of Kidney Disease. Different mental characteristics can lead to functional disorder of internal organ and worsen Kidney Disease directly or indirectly.

In Chinese Medicine Therapy, mental factor is one of pathogenetic factors. Human body is a closely integrated organic whole. One person’s mentality is closely related with internal organic function. During the process of Kidney Disease development, mentality is also very important. A good mental mood is beneficial to make Qi flow smoothly, which is helpful to keep each internal organ operating normally. Then water metabolism as well as secretion and excretion function can be normal. All these are favorable for Kidney Disease patients to recover.
Contrarily, bad mental mood can cause Qi dysfunction and blood circulation disorder,, resulting in functional disorder of internal organs which can cause or worsen illness condition.


Clinically, most PKD patients will lose confidence of overcoming the disease due to much long disease course or worsening illness condition. They may feel despondent and pessimistic, or even despairing. For this reason, other family members or patients friends should console patients frequently and encourage patients to fight against with disease. Through this way, patients can cooperate with doctors actively in a favorable mood. During the process of treating this disease, patients should avoid bad mental stimulation, which is helpful for patients’ recovery.

Case Analysis of Polycystic Kidney Disease and Polycystic Liver Disease

Patient Name: Zhang Chunzhi

Gender: female

Age: 62 years old

Province: Handan, Hebei Province

Diagnosis: Polycystic Kidney Disease, Polycystic Liver Disease

Main cause: patient has suffered from Polycystic Kidney Disease and Polycystic Liver Disease for more than 20 years. Bilateral kidneys are both larger than 20cm. Patient herself can touch enlarged kidney. Urine amount: 800ml with light color. Serum creatinine: 872 umol/L. BUN: 34.2mmol/L.

Treatment: after 26-day treatment in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, patient showed great sensitivity on micronized Chinese Medicine. She said that kidneys she has touched are not as hard and large as before.

Test result: serum creatinine, 264umol/L; BUN: 12.3mmol/L. This result is really a great surprise for patient herself and her attending doctor.


Expert comments: PKD is one of common causes of Uremia. Continuously growing cysts can compress healthy nephron, causing nephron injury. Then Renal Insufficiency occurs. According to the above, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital adopts Micro-Chinese Medicine to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. Micro-Chinese Medicine can permeate into cysts directly, and fully play the role of activating blood and dredging channels, eliminating blood stasis and removing obstructions in blood vessel. All these are beneficial for kidney to excrete cyst fluid. Therefore, cyst internal pressure can be reduced and cyst size can be smaller with gradually recovered renal function. As a result, creatinine and urea nitrogen decrease.

Normal Treatment of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease

Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of congenital hereditary Kidney Disease, belonging to autosomal dominant inheritance disease, which means that this disease can inherit from generation to generation, but never skip generation. Each parent suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease, each of their children can have 50% possibility of getting this disease. According to statistics, one in 400 to 1000 persons can suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease.
With PKD occurring, clinical complications, cyst rupture, bleeding, inflammation and stones, appear. All these complications are expressed on patients’ body, which can decrease patients’ immunity and cause infection easily.

Generally, cyst decortication and puncture sclerotherapy are used to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. These two operations can relieve symptoms of abdominal distension and waist pain in a short time, but other complications of Haematuria, anemia, High Blood Pressure and high creatinine can not be solved completely.
Such operations can only treat symptoms instead of treating the disease itself, which can aggravate kidney condition and cause renal ischemia and anoxia as well as glomerular low perfusion. Then patients’ renal function declines gradually and renal ability of excreting toxin decreases greatly, expressed by continuously high serum creatinine. Finally PKD develops into Uremia.

The correct way of treating Polycystic Kidney Disease is to start with recovering patients’ injured renal function and treating complications at the same time. Only in this way, PKD can be treated effectively.


As last, one point should be noted that patients should avoid any exercise that may increase cyst internal pressure; no matter they are accepting treatment in hospital or receiving consolidation treatment at home.

Chronic Waist Pain of Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

Chronic waist pain which is a common symptom of Kidney Disease should not be neglected by patients. Especially for patients suffering from Polycystic Kidney Disease, they should pay much more attention on waist pain than others, because the painful feeling may be caused by urinary tract infection or Kidney Stone caused by growing cysts, or even renal cell carcinoma can be one of the causes. Patients who suffer from light pain may feel abdominal swelling and discomfort, while patients with serious condition may feel seriously painful. Such pain can be worsened after strenuous exercise. Waist pain may be caused by pressure on renal parenchyma or renal hilus resulting from growing and increasing cysts. Sharp pain always refers to complications of Kidney Stone, hematomas or obstruction caused by renal bleeding, infections and malignant tumor, etc.

Different Polycystic Kidney Disease patients have pain of different degrees, and mental factors can aggravate waist pain of 40% patients. As for patients who suffer from waist pain mainly caused by mental factors, they should accept a systemic treatment, including mental relaxing training and distracting attention, etc. Presently, psychotherapy has been more researched, because it can avoid some danger from taking medicine.

Polycystic Kidney Disease Complicated with Stone

Patient: Wu Changwei, Male, 60 years old

Diagnosis: Polycystic Kidney Disease complicated with Multiple Stone, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Compensatory Stage

Hospitalization: 22ed Jan, 2007 to 6th Feb, 2007

Main Cause: patient has suffered from intermittent waist pain for 15 years.
Test when patient went to hospital: 1. Polycystic Liver Disease; 2. Polycystic Kidney Disease; Type-B Ultrasonic result: left kidney, 22.9*9.6cm; right kidney, 17.1*9.0cm’ large cyst in left kidney, 7.8*5.8cm; large cyst in right kidney, 5.4*4.6cm; small stone can be found in cysts.

Renal Function Test: serum creatinine, 135.7umol/L; endogenous creatinine clearance, 51.5ml/min

Morse Test: renal tubular concentrating and dilution functions are damaged. Patient has symptoms of waist pain and Haematuria.

Treatment: Micro-Chinese Medicine is taken to anticoagulation, antioxidant, anti-inflammation and active blood circulation in order to protect renal function. After 10-day treatment, patient’s appetite increases and waist pain reduced gradually. Brick red granular deposite is found in urine.


Expert Comment: with cysts growing and increasing, these cysts will compress healthy normal renal tissue, causing renal ischemia and anoxia. Then renal function and renal ability of excreting toxin decline. Micro-Chinese Medicine can improve renal blood circulation and shrink cysts through methods of activating blood and dredging channels, eliminating stasis and removing obstructions in blood vessel, repairing and renewing. Through these methods, renal function can be improved, so does renal ability of excreting toxin. Besides, with cyst internal pressure reducing, the pressure on gastrointestinal tract decreases, which is helpful to improve digestive function, then abdominal discomfort can be relieved.

Hypertension of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) belongs to hereditary Kidney Disease, kind of congenital abnormality. Cysts of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) are mainly caused by eccyliosis of renal parenchyma and renal structure, with different involvement of each kidney. These cysts compress surrounding healthy renal tissue, which can cause renal ischemia and anoxia as well as low renal perfusion. Then Hypertension of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) happens, which means that Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients begin to suffer from Hypertension.

Through observation, many grapelike cysts with different sizes spread over the whole renal tissue, and the volume of cysts is much larger than the volume of renal parenchyma. Kidney enlarges obviously and light yellow liquid can be found in cyst at kidney section. Due to internal bleeding, liquid color may be red or brown, contenting tiny protein, chloride, cholesterin and light urea. Cysts may be open to each other, but isolated with renal pelvis. Cystic pressure on renal tissue can cause renal tubule atrophy and sclerosis, damage glomerulus and renal function. Besides, these cysts also compress kidney blood vessels, reducing local blood flow. Therefore, there will be a high concentration of angiotensin with shrunk blood vessel, leading to Hypertension. In some degree, it is a vicious circle between Hypertension and renal function injury.


Based on the above, generally, once Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients get Hypertension, it means that renal function is about to decline or has already been damaged. For this reason, patients should pay more attention on controlling Hypertension.

Advantages of Micro-Chinese Medicine in Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease which has a long and complex disease course is not easy to be treated completely. Western Medicine Treatment can only treat this disease starting with single cyst, which can not treat this disease radically, having less therapeutic effect. Traditional Chinese Medicine can be effective but also has a slow effect. Based on these problems, Micro-Chinese Medicine was developed by Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, with fast medicine effect and good therapeutic effect. Generally speaking, there are three advantages of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

Firstly, high medicine effect: through the application of strong Ultrasonic Cavitation, Traditional Chinese Medicine turns into Micro-Chinese Medicine particles which is more than 1000 times smaller than former. By this way, effective composition of Chinese Medicine can be spilled out fully, which can improve the permeability of medicine. With medicine permeability improving, medicine particles can enter into kidney lesions directly and freely. These medicine particles can combine with remained and damaged molecular chain of kidney lesions after entering into kidney, forming new renal tissue and cells. Besides, Micro-Chinese Medicine also has the characteristics of fast operating speed, strong pertinence and professional effect, etc. Patients can have direct feelings of fast relieved symptoms and reduced painful feeling.

Secondly, Micro-Chinese Medicine can enter into kidney lesions directly. Back Shu Points are the special acupoints that Qi of Zang-Fu (internal organs) transfuses on back. When there is disease on Zang-Fu, abnormalities can be found on relevant back Shu Points. By using osmosis machine, Micro-Chinese Medicine can enter into kidney lesions directly through Back Shu Points and release highly effective composition of Chinese Medicine to repair kidney lesions. This can make cyst internal pressure higher than internal pressure of blood pressure, which is beneficial to make tiny molecular and water permeate into blood vessel, and excrete these substances out of body, reducing cyst pressure directly. Meanwhile, Micro-Chinese Medicine can also repair endothelial cells on cyst wall and prevent these cells secreting cyst fluid with the purpose of shrinking cysts.


Thirdly, Micro-Chinese Medicine can locate lesions accurately. According to characteristics of computer wave group, mid-frequency currents with different wavelengths and wave shapes are set. Under the action of osmosis machine, active substances of Micro-Chinese Medicine carried by current can get into kidney directly. The length from back kidney region to kidney is taken as the length of wavelength after computer determination. Medicine can enter into kidney lesions within 1 minute with less attrition. Besides, this can activate immune system of patients who have a lower immunity, promoting antibody production and balancing disorder condition of immune system. Micro-Chinese Medicine can prevent kidney damage caused by cystic pressure, reduce mesangial cell proliferation and slow the speed of Glomerular Sclerosis, which can recover injured renal function, improve body condition and strong disease-resistant ability, with fast and lasting effect.

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Relapse

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a common among clinical Kidney Disease, and treatment is the key in the process of Polycystic Kidney Disease treating. In Western Medicine, operation is the most common treatment. Though operation can have some certain effect on treating Polycystic Kidney Disease, it can not block Renal Fibrosis which is the root cause of this disease aggravation. Under this condition, Polycystic Kidney Disease can be worsened with frequent recurrence.

In Western Medicine Treatment, removing cysts by operation is widely used to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). For example, puncture operation and cyst decortication have been applied in clinical practice for many years. These operations can relieve clinical symptoms obviously and gain supports from many patients. But all these operation can only remove or reduce some larger cysts, which can relieve cystic pressure on healthy tissue, increase kidney blood flow and relieve clinical symptoms in a short time. They can not treat Polycystic Kidney Disease radically. Once patients catch a cold or infection, this disease relapses easily.

Based on the disadvantages of Western Medicine Treatment, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital has developed distinctive Chinese Medicine Treatment, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, through many years of clinical practice and research. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat Polycystic Kidney Disease starting with blocking Renal Fibrosis, which can prevent this disease relapsing effectively.

Active substances of Micro-Chinese Medicine can act on cyst wall to improve microcirculation of cyst wall, which can increase cyst fluid reabsorption and reduce cyst fluid secretion. Through this way, cysts can be shrunk gradually and the pressure on healthy kidney can be decreased, prolonging patients’ life greatly.


As long as patients accept treatment that can block Renal Fibrosis, repair injured renal inherent cells and inhibit cysts growing effectively, disease recurrence can be avoided. Then patients can have a longer time, living as normally as other healthy person.

Diagnosis Methods of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

An early diagnosis is very important for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) to accept timely treatment. If effective treatment can be taken in time, this disease can be worsened with easy recurrence, causing Renal Failure, or even Uremia. Well then, how to make sure that whether patients get Polycystic Kidney Disease or not and can exact diagnosis depend on some symptoms only? The answer is “not”.

Firstly, main clinical symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease: continuous or paroxysmal pain on waist and abdomen usually happens as primary symptoms, and painful feeling will be more serious after tiredness; Haematuria is a typical symptom happened among nearly half Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, expressed by intermitted gross Haematuria without pain; Abdominal masses in various sizes can be touched on upper abdomen flank, sometimes complicated by Hypertension with vertigo and headache; Renal Insufficiency can be found by obvious abnormality of renal function tests, with low but fixed urine specific gravity.

Secondly, Body Check: unilateral or bilateral kidneys can be touched in nodule shape through body check. Pressing pain can be felt when there is a infection. 50% patients have increased size of waist.

Thirdly, Assistant Tests:

(1) Routine urine test: no abnormality can be found in early stage, and microscopic Haematuria can be found in middle and late stage. Some patients may have Albuminuria. White Blood Cells and pyocyte can be found when there is complicated by Stones and Infections.

(2) Urine osmotic pressure test: even in the early stage when there is only very few cysts, expressions of renal concentrating function damage can be observed. This means that this damage may not be related with kidney structure damage only. Instead, it may also be related with renal insensitivity to antidiuretic hormone. Renal concentrating function decline happens before glomerular filtrating function decline.

(3) Serum creatinine is increasing progressively with kidney compensatory ability decline. Creatinine clearance rate is a more sensitive index.

(4) In KUB plain film, increased kidney image can be seen with irregular shape.

(5) Through IVP, deformation tendency of compressed renal pelvis and renal calices can be found. Renal pelvis and renal calices can be found in strange spiderlike shape. Renal pelvis is plain and wide, while renal calices neck become longer and thinner, showing a curved shape.

(6) Through Type-B Ultrasonic examination, a large number of shadows can be found in bilateral kidney region.

(7) Bilateral kidney enlargement can be found in CT examination, with lobulated shape. Many cysts with thin cyst wall can be found inside fluid.


If patients doubt they get Polycystic Kidney Disease, they should go to normal hospital for a whole body checks. Taking medicine by their own choice is forbidden, which can lead to some unnecessary problems.

Haematuria of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients

Recurrent Haematuria is a problem most patients are worried about, and how to prevent Haematuria recurrence has also gained high attention from Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients.

Haematuria is more common when patients are suffering from Hypertension and kidney enlargement, mainly caused by small blood vessel rupture near cysts. Besides, urinary tract infection and Kidney Stone can also cause Haematuria.
Haematuria can last for one or several days. At this moment, patients should take a bed rest and increase liquid intake. Some proper medicines can be taken to treat relative symptoms. If blood produced by blood vessel rupture enters into cyst directly, there will be severe pain instead of Haematuria. Repeated Haematuria is related with renal function injury, so patients should avoid active bleeding actively.

It is more difficult to treat Haematuria caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease than Haematuria caused by other Kidney Diseases. Clinical Haematuria caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease is easier to relapse. Generally, Haematuria can disappear in 4 to 8 days after medicine treatment, but it appears for another time not long after disappearing, especially for patients who suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease. The more frequent Haematuria of PKD relapses, the higher risk and ganger of patients get end stage Kidney Diseases. Treating Haematuria caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease should start with many aspects:

Firstly, when Haematuria happens, patients should pay more attention on controlling infections. Most Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients are easy to get renal infections once Haematuria happened. These infections can worsen Haematuria.

Secondly, treatment that can activate blood, eliminate stasis and improve blood circulation should be taken to treat this disease. Growing cysts compressing renal parenchyma can cause glomerular ischemia and anoxia, which is reason why Polycystic Kidney Disease usually happens with so many complications. Therefore, methods that can dilate blood vessel, improve blood circulation on cyst wall and increase permeability of cyst wall should be taken to increase renal blood perfusion, speed up reabsorption of cyst fluid and prevent cysts keeping growing.


If only Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patient can block Renal Fibrosis, repair injured renal inherent cells and inhibit cyst growing effectively, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) as well as its complications, Haematuria included, can be treated. Then patients can live a normal life healthily when carrying this disease.

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Be Treated without Operation

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of genetic Kidney Disease which refers to many cysts appeared in renal cortex and renal medulla. Among treatments of Polycystic Kidney Disease, cyst puncture, cyst decortication and Nephrectomy are mainly adopted. But with social science development, disadvantages of these operations are appearing gradually. It has been proved that operations of treating Polycystic Kidney Disease can not meet patients’ needs any more.

The first disadvantage: operation can only treat surface problems instead of starting with disease cause. Surgical operation is good at removing lesions in order to eliminating discomforts caused by neoplasm, but it can not treat the disease radically. Either puncture or decortication can only treat Polycystic Kidney Disease starting with larger cysts, playing limited role in dealing with smaller cysts. Besides, with large cysts removed, internal pressure reduces at the same time, which can make small cysts grow more rapidly, damaging renal function further. For this reason, surgical operations are not suggested to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease in order to prevent vicious circle which can worsen renal function into irretrievable damage.

The second disadvantage: both Nephrectomy and Kidney Transplantation needs a really high cost with unpredictable result. Most people think Nephrectomy and Kidney Transplantation are good ways to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease radically, and they are indeed. But as a large trauma operation, Nephrectomy is a serious test for patients. In addition, due to genetic feature of Polycystic Kidney Disease, when patients remove sick kidneys, acute failure may happen to another kidney. As for Kidney Transplantation, besides expensive cost and difficulties of matching, reject action that may appear after operation can make most patients shrink back.


Due to the disadvantages of surgical operation, most patients turn their attention to Chinese Medicine. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can block Renal Fibrosis and relieve illness condition. The core technique of this treatment is to micronize Chinese Medicine with good effect on treating Kidney Disease in order to fully release and mix effective composition of Chinese Medicine. Then with the help of Osmosis machine, this treatment can make effective medicine enter into renal lesions directly in an external application. This new developed treatment can avoid side effect of oral medicine on one hand, and on the hand it achieves the goal of making effective medicine enter into renal lesions directly.