The Memory of one Polycystic Kidney Disease Patient

The second day, Mike asked me why I did not have supper yesterday. 'Lots of work made me too tired', it is the first time I lied to my husband.

'You are too busy. You can ask a leave today. Did you say that you have low back pain? Have a good sleep for one day', said Mike.

'OK'

As soon as he walked out of home, I got up quickly and turn on my computer to search the information about Polycystic Kidney Disease, which was printed on my check-up report. 'What symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease', 'what causes Polycystic Kidney Disease', 'what you can not do is……' and 'what you can do is……' came to my sight. When I felt a little tired, I went to bed, watching ceiling and did not want to close my eyes. What happened past came to my mind one by one. How happy I was and how healthy I was, which made me to live in the past and did not want to go ahead. 'What should I do?' and 'what will Mike react?' repeated to my mind.

I did not get the answers, and my tears kept running all day. I could not accept the reality. With one-day painful thought, I could not wait for Mike any more. Took on my coat without combing hair and got on a taxi on the way to his company……

At the moment I arrived at the office lobby, I saw him walking out of elevator. And I wept at the sight of him. He was obviously confused, however I could hardly say a word……

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Treats Polycystic Kidney Disease

On one hand, effective ingredients in Micro-Chinese medicines have function of expanding blood vessels. By expanding blood vessels, blood circulation in cyst wall can be improved. As a result, blood pressure in cyst wall decreases. When blood pressure in cyst wall lower than pressure inside cyst, cyst fluid will leak out and then get into blood vessels. With blood flow, these fluids will get out of our body finally. Moreover, improvement of blood circulation in cyst wall help to soften cysts, which makes cyst fluid get out of cyst easier.

On another hand, by acting on cells growing in cyst wall, active substances in Micro-Chinese medicines can restrain the generation of fluid, so as to control the persistent increase of cyst. Fluid inside cyst is excreted by cells growing in cyst wall. Micro-Chinese medicines are composed of different types of herbal medicines. Some of types of medicines have the ability of restraining the excretion of epithelial cells. When cells in cyst wall stop excreting fluid, then the cyst will stop enlarging.

This is the general introduction about how Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy treats Polycystic Kidney Disease. Through restraining the generation of cyst fluid and reabsorbing cyst fluid, cyst can be shrunk effectively. In fact, besides these, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has many other functions such as anticoagulation, anti-inflammation and degrading extracellular matrix. What is more, all these functions are helpful in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Complications of PKD

Simple renal cyst may develop into malignancy cyst, but the morbidity is rather low. Actually, if being treated in time, Polycystic Kidney Disease can be controlled under a stable condition. There are many people refuse to have treatment when the cyst is small, and once they are hurt by the pain cause by cysts, they come to hospital and find the cyst already big enough and hard to be treated. So, for simple renal cyst, paying much attention to the disease condition does matter a lot. However, for PKD, with the growing of cysts, functional cells and tissues in kidney will be damaged, so we can say that PKD is much more serious because when the cells are damaged, there will be problems with kidney functions, and if no treatment, finally the disease may deteriorate into ESRD. Renal Failure caused by PKD is very common among those who are undergoing dialysis. And PKD does arouse many complications as follows.

1. Kidney stone and cyst calcification. For patients with PKD, when they feel painful in low back, especially when the pain become serious, and blood in urine can be seen by the naked eyes, it needs to be considered as kidney stone, and the sufferers had better take some related examinations to make sure the disease condition.

2. Cysts cancerization. It is still disputed whether renal cysts can lead to cancerization, but actually there really some people getting cancerization as an aftermath of renal cysts. When the patients have pain in renal region, regular hematuria, loss of weight, blood coagulation, and abnormal anemia, or the increase of blood cells, cancerization can be one accompanying disease they must pay close attention to. What they need to do is CT scan or some related examinations to detect the condition of cysts.

What Causes Polycystic Kidney Disease

Factors That Can Promote the Formation of the Cysts:

Though we don't know the exact cause of these cysts, we know that the formation of the cysts are related to the endothelial cells of the kidneys. It is the fluid excreted by the endothelial cells that forms the cysts.

Besides, we know the disease is hereditary. However, we don't know it is which gene that causes the disease.

Factors That Will Stimulate the Growth of the Cysts:

Spicy food, such as hot pepper, mustard and garlic will stimulate the growth of the cysts in the kidneys.

Liquor, especially white spirit will promote the the rapid growth of the cysts.

What Should Patients with PKD Do?

Patients with PKD should control the growth of the cysts by inactivating the endothelial cells. If the endothelial cells are inactivated, the fluid will not be excreted. And then the cysts will not grow, which will not damage the kidneys. If so, patients will live a comfortable life. Externally used herbal medicine treatment (Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy) can help patients inactivate the endothelial cells.

To control the growth of the cysts, patients should get rid of drinking or eating irritant food.

Apart from medical treatment and healthy diet, patients should get rid of strenuous exercise in case of the rupture of the cysts.

If patients can do these things well, they are more likely to keep away from kidney impairment caused by the cyst enlargement. Though there is no specific for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, patients can live a normal life like average people.

What are the Side Effects of PKD

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of hereditary disease, so it always present in the whole family, and unfortunately, there is still no cure for PKD.

First these cysts will cause many complication of the patients, the following are some common ones that are caused by PKD.

1. Loss of kidney function to kidney failure

Progressive loss of kidney function is one of the most serious complications of polycystic kidney disease. Generally the patients will step into kidney failure stage in their 50s if no treatments are intervened.

2. High blood pressure

Elevated blood pressure is a very common complication of polycystic kidney disease. If high blood pressure can't be well controlled, it will cause further damage to the kidneys and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke of the patients.

3. Cysts of other organs, like liver, pancreas, Ovary, lung, etc.

4. Kidney stones It is another common complication of PKD. Sometimes the patients will feel great pain, due to the kidney stones, and the kidney cysts. The patients should adopt a right method to remove the stones, and relive the pain. Don't try those ways which would cause damage to the kidneys, or it will accelerate the kidney damage process.

How Long Can People with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Live

how long can a person with PKD live on earth?

First, I would like to explain that PKD is a hereditary disease and it is possible for us to stop it from appearing, but we can do something to delay its occurrence or control its development. Then how long a person with PKD can live on earth? Actually, it is difficult for us to tell the exact answer, because the survival time of a person with PKD has close relationship with the severity of their disease and their treatment. That is to say, if people with PKD receive effective treatment as early as possible, then it is quite possible for them to live a full life with PKD.

PKD is a genetic disease, so once you found one of your family members has this disease, and then you should go to do examination to find out whether you have this disease as well. Moreover, even if you are diagnosed with PKD, you should not be anxious and worried as some people with PKD may have no symptoms throughout their life. Thereby if you are also in this case, then it is not necessary for you to receive treatment. However, for some people with PKD, their cysts may enlarge at a very high speed and then run to end stage of renal failure. Under this circumstance, if people do not receive any treatment, they usually can not live a long time.

Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

I Operation only focus on symptoms, ignores the fundamental causes. Both drainage and pressure relief treatment point at the cysts with lager size, and have nothing to do with the small ones. Moreover, when the inter pressure is reduced, the small cysts will grow dramatically without the previous pressing. Then the patients will fell into a loop, cysts grow with the relief of pressure, and damage of kidney is aggravated along with application of drainage.

II Nephrectomy: Apart from the high expenditure of it, it may also arouse serious consequence. Firstly, as nephrectomy is a major operation, it is really a challenge for the patients’ endurance that has already been exhausted by PKD. Secondly, PKD is a hereditary disease, abundance of one kidney may not stop the damage to the other kidney. What’s worse, it may make renal functions of the preserved kidney decline rapidly.

III Kidney Transplant：First of all, the expenditure is not affordable to most of patients. Then, the patients may have to wait a quite long time for the right kidney source, but few of patients are lucky enough to wait till the day comes. Last but not the least, rejection after the transplant is a big concern, which may bring death.

IV Effects of Assistant Drug: For example, converting enzyme inhibitor is a widely used among the patients with PKD, for Hypertension is a common complication for those patients. Though it has a good effect to control the blood pressure, it also brings damage to the kidney. Especially for those have big kidneys, converting enzyme inhibitor may cause severe renal hemorrhage and sharp decline of renal function, and even shock, which threatens the patients’ lives. Besides, long-term application of these drugs will cause drug-resistance, bringing irreversible damage to liver.

What Are the Defects of Operation Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

I Operation only focus on symptoms, ignores the fundamental causes. Both drainage and pressure relief treatment point at the cysts with lager size, and have nothing to do with the small ones. Moreover, when the inter pressure is reduced, the small cysts will grow dramatically without the previous pressing. Then the patients will fell into a loop, cysts grow with the relief of pressure, and damage of kidney is aggravated along with application of drainage.

II Nephrectomy: Apart from the high expenditure of it, it may also arouse serious consequence. Firstly, as nephrectomy is a major operation, it is really a challenge for the patients’ endurance that has already been exhausted by PKD. Secondly, PKD is a hereditary disease, abundance of one kidney may not stop the damage to the other kidney. What’s worse, it may make renal functions of the preserved kidney decline rapidly.

III Kidney Transplant：First of all, the expenditure is not affordable to most of patients. Then, the patients may have to wait a quite long time for the right kidney source, but few of patients are lucky enough to wait till the day comes. Last but not the least, rejection after the transplant is a big concern, which may bring death.

IV Effects of Assistant Drug: For example, converting enzyme inhibitor is a widely used among the patients with PKD, for Hypertension is a common complication for those patients. Though it has a good effect to control the blood pressure, it also brings damage to the kidney. Especially for those have big kidneys, converting enzyme inhibitor may cause severe renal hemorrhage and sharp decline of renal function, and even shock, which threatens the patients’ lives. Besides, long-term application of these drugs will cause drug-resistance, bringing irreversible damage to liver.

Treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Due to renal parenchymal damage, patients may feel continuous bursting pain at bilateral renal area. It can also be accompanied by hypertension, hematuria and less urine etc. In later stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease, the disease develops fast. If not controlled, it can develop to Renal Failure and Uremia stage in short time.
There are good therapies both in western medicine and Chinese medicine.
In the early stage of PKD, patients have no symptom and the damage to the around renal tissues is not serious, so patients need no special treatment. Just do regular test to observe the condition. If the cysts continue to enlarge and cause renal parenchymal damage, proper treatment is needed.
In Chinese medicine, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the most suitabletreatment method for PKD until now. The Chinese medicine are micronized into one thousandths of its original size. With the action of the microwave, the medicine can arrive directly into the renal lesions through skin and channels on the back. It has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, so it can improve the microcirculation and the state of ischemia and anoxia. The permeability of the cyst walls will be increased and the cyst liquid will gradually be discharged out with blood circulation. After the cysts are shrunk, the pressure on the renal tissues will be reduced and the renal function will be better.
Western medicine treatment for PKD.
Apart from using western medicine to control the complications such as hypertension and infection, the most important method is surgery. Under the guidance of ultrasound and CT, the doctor can practice centesis to pumping the cyst liquid out and inject firming agent. Before the surgery, patients have to control the infection until the disease condition becomes stable.

How to Prevent PKD from Deteriorating into Kidney Failure

1. Find the disease as early as possible.

If one has PKD, there are much possibility that other family members having this disease, because PKD is a kind of genetic disease. If one of the parents has PKD, the possibility of heredity for their child is 50%, and if both of the parents have PKD, the possibility of heredity is 70% with which the next generation will get the same disease. Therefore, when there is somebody being detected with the disease, other family members should have a check as soon as possible. The other way is to have the DNA test for the fetus.

2. Treatment for complications.

Hypertension, urinary infection, rupture of cysts are all the common complications of PKD, and they are also the inducing agents for the aggravation of kidney lesions, so prevention and treatment should be provided timely. Medicines with nephrotoxicity should be avoided, and when there are abnormal manifestations such as long-term hematuria, serious low back pain and abdominal pain, the patients should go to hospital in time in case of delaying the best chance for treatment and the deterioration into kidney failure.

3. Nursing at home.

Since PKD and kidney failure are chronic diseases, they are easily influenced by fluctuation of emotion, overstrain, unhealthy diet and trauma, etc. Therefore, Patients with PKD especially when they are in the stage of kidney failure, they need to cooperate with the treatment at home in many aspects, including the nursing, diet as well as the emotion.

How Long Can People with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Live

First, I would like to explain that PKD is a hereditary disease and it is possible for us to stop it from appearing, but we can do something to delay its occurrence or control its development. Then how long a person with PKD can live on earth? Actually, it is difficult for us to tell the exact answer, because the survival time of a person with PKD has close relationship with the severity of their disease and their treatment. That is to say, if people with PKD receive effective treatment as early as possible, then it is quite possible for them to live a full life with PKD.

PKD is a genetic disease, so once you found one of your family members has this disease, and then you should go to do examination to find out whether you have this disease as well. Moreover, even if you are diagnosed with PKD, you should not be anxious and worried as some people with PKD may have no symptoms throughout their life. Thereby if you are also in this case, then it is not necessary for you to receive treatment. However, for some people with PKD, their cysts may enlarge at a very high speed and then run to end stage of renal failure. Under this circumstance, if people do not receive any treatment, they usually can not live a long time.

What Are the Defects of Operation Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Operation only focus on symptoms, ignores the fundamental causes. Both drainage and pressure relief treatment point at the cysts with lager size, and have nothing to do with the small ones. Moreover, when the inter pressure is reduced, the small cysts will grow dramatically without the previous pressing. Then the patients will fell into a loop, cysts grow with the relief of pressure, and damage of kidney is aggravated along with application of drainage.

Nephrectomy: Apart from the high expenditure of it, it may also arouse serious consequence. Firstly, as nephrectomy is a major operation, it is really a challenge for the patients’ endurance that has already been exhausted by PKD. Secondly, PKD is a hereditary disease, abundance of one kidney may not stop the damage to the other kidney. What’s worse, it may make renal functions of the preserved kidney decline rapidly.

Kidney Transplant：First of all, the expenditure is not affordable to most of patients. Then, the patients may have to wait a quite long time for the right kidney source, but few of patients are lucky enough to wait till the day comes. Last but not the least, rejection after the transplant is a big concern, which may bring death.

Effects of Assistant Drug: For example, converting enzyme inhibitor is a widely used among the patients with PKD, for Hypertension is a common complication for those patients. Though it has a good effect to control the blood pressure, it also brings damage to the kidney. Especially for those have big kidneys, converting enzyme inhibitor may cause severe renal hemorrhage and sharp decline of renal function, and even shock, which threatens the patients’ lives. Besides, long-term application of these drugs will cause drug-resistance, bringing irreversible damage to liver.

What are the Commom Complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Then what are the complications of polycystic kidney disease?

1 Cyst infection: generally, in this situation, patients often have pain in renal area, and also present fever. It is easy to mix cyst infection with pyelonephritis.

2 Hemoturesis: Few patients may have active and persistent gross hematuria, which even can threaten patient's life.

3 Hypertension or repeated urinary tract infection.

4 Kidney stone: under normal circumstances, the backache caused by PKD is dull pain. The occurrence of colic pain accompanied by gross hematuria occurs may indicate kidney stone.

5 Brain artery hemangima: the incidence for brain artery hemangima is about 10%-40%, often detected due to the hemangioma and cerebral hemorrhage.

Taboos for People with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Taboos for People with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

offal foods

Cooked foods which is made of animal offal are not allowed to be eaten by people with PKD, especially the animal livers. In the course of butchering animals, many toxins are left in entrails, particularly liver. Detoxication is the major function of liver, that is to say, most of the metabolic toxic substances are remained in the liver. Therefore, eating these foods means increasing the burden of our kidneys. As to people with PKD, their disease will be deteriorated invisibly.

High-protein foods

High-protein foods should be a taboo for people with any kind of kidney disease, not only for these who have PKD. In normal condition, protein can not be stored in our body and redundant protein is usually decomposed. Then the metabolin are excreted through kidneys, thereby, ingesting too much protein will aggravate the kidney burden, and thus to exacerbate our disease.

Fermented foods

The common fermented foods include fermented bean curd and rotten egg. Eating these foods will speed up the enlargement of cysts.

Superiority of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Treating PKD

ifferent from the relapse character of operation and slow effect of traditional Chinese medicines, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy focus on the fundamental of disease, and with help of modern medical apparatus, the active ingredient can directly permeate kidney lesion, thus functioning quickly.

The deterioration of PKD is just a course of fibrosing for the kidney. Along with the development of cysts, they will gradually oppress the renal parenchyma, causing hypoxia and ischemia and even necrosis of renal glomerulus. Without effective treatment, the fibrosis will gradually replace the renal tissues, arousing renal function decline and retention of toxins, as a result, Uremia comes into being. Therefore，the key of treating PKD is to control the development of cysts and prevent the progress of fibrosing. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is exactly a treatment dealing with these problems. On one hand, the active incidents of Chinese medicines can help to discharge the excess cyst fluid and prohibit its excretion, thus fundamentally controlling the enlargement of cysts; on the other hand, by the effects of expanding vessels, anti-inflammation, anti-coagulation, and degrading, the micro-Chinese medicines can availably block the progress of renal fibrosis, finally preventing the development into Uremia. Simultaneously, micro-Chinese medicine has effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and restoring the damaged cells, so, truly put the restoration of renal function into effect.

As to the patients in advanced stage of PKD, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can help to alleviate the symptoms and slow down the progress of deterioration, but the effects may be not as obvious as the patients in early and middle stage.

Is There Any Effective Treatment for People with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

We all know PKD is characterized by the persistence of multiple cysts and it is very these cysts do harms to our kidneys. The cysts are full of fluid which is secreted constantly by the epithelial cells growing in cyst wall and because of which, people with PKD usually have enlarged kidneys. Because of the ceaseless generation of cyst fluid, cysts become bigger and bigger, and cause oppression to the surrounding renal tissues therewith. Long-term oppression to the renal tissues stops blood flow from reaching every part of our kidneys and this condition is called renal ischemia in clinic. Renal functional cells which can not get enough nutrient substances from the blood lose their life gradually, thus to weaken renal function.

Therefore, to avoid impair our renal function, preventing the generation of cyst fluid and then reabsorbing existing cyst fluid is of great importance. As we have mentioned just now that cyst fluid is secreted by epithelial cells, so by restraining the activity of these cells with effective treatment, we can get the generation of cyst fluid decreased and in this light, enlargement of cysts are brought under control in some way. Moreover, as to the existing cyst fluid, through the treatment, permeability of cyst wall can be enhanced effectively which will promote the leakage of cyst fluid and thus to achieve the purpose of shrinking cysts.

Shrinking Cysts in Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease

Inactivating epithelial cells of cysts

PKD is a genetic disorder, in which primitive urine is easily blocked in kidney tubules. Stimulated, kidney tubular epithelial cells will proliferate, blocking its unobstructed flow passage. The upstream of liquid will be forced to extrude the wall of tubules and form cysts. At the same time, the epithelial cells of cysts secrete fluid inside, promoting the growth of cysts. As the cysts grow, they will stretch the renal capsule and squeeze other tissues in kidney, resulting lower back pain and damaging renal function.

With external applications, effective medicines in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will permeate into skin and reach the lesion, through urinary bladder channel in renal region. Those medicines will inactivate epithelial cells of cysts and restrain them secreting fluid inside. As time goes, those cysts will become softer than before and stop growing.

Draining out the fluid inside

While inactivate epithelial cells, the effective medicines also can dilate the capillaries and promote blood circulation on the surface of cysts. With larger amount of blood, blood flow is smoothed and the fast circulation can reabsorb or suck the fluid inside and further shrink the cysts in kidneys.

Why Is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Outstanding among Traditional Chinese Medicine

The first superiority of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the way of execution. Different with Chinese medicine soup, it is administrated externally. This external adoption can successfully avert the irritation of medicine to the respiratory tract as well as the digestive tract.

Second, the external using do not indicate that Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can't be as effective as other oral medicine to directly work in the disease focus, for there is a special device to help with the osmosis of medicine ingredients. The Micro-Chinese Medicine is bagged, and is put in the renal area in the back of patient. It is used like a massor in massage armchair, and when used, it vibrates slightly to promote the osmosis of medicine into disease focus in kidneys.

Third, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a special thing name as "trigger of medicine". It is an ingredient added to enhance the efficacy of a dose of medicine, and is usually something not regarded as "medicine" by normal people. In Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, there is also a kind of "trigger of medicine" to facilitate the acting of medicines.

Last but not the least, the prescription of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an old one which has been proved by thousands of clinical cases through the rather long history. For Chinese medicine, the older the prescription is, the better the efficacy will be, because the old prescriptions are the essence of Traditional Chinese Medicine which is a significant part in Traditional Chinese culture. With the fact of efficacy in the 5000-year history, there is no need to state too much about the practical applicability and the undoubted effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine prescription. Besides, what should be pointed out is, the exact prescription varies somewhat according to different illness condition in clinic, so patients in various cases can all have a satisfying effect from Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Treats Polycystic Kidney Disease

On one hand, effective ingredients in Micro-Chinese medicines have function of expanding blood vessels. By expanding blood vessels, blood circulation in cyst wall can be improved. As a result, blood pressure in cyst wall decreases. When blood pressure in cyst wall lower than pressure inside cyst, cyst fluid will leak out and then get into blood vessels. With blood flow, these fluids will get out of our body finally. Moreover, improvement of blood circulation in cyst wall help to soften cysts, which makes cyst fluid get out of cyst easier.

On another hand, by acting on cells growing in cyst wall, active substances in Micro-Chinese medicines can restrain the generation of fluid, so as to control the persistent increase of cyst. Fluid inside cyst is excreted by cells growing in cyst wall. Micro-Chinese medicines are composed of different types of herbal medicines. Some of types of medicines have the ability of restraining the excretion of epithelial cells. When cells in cyst wall stop excreting fluid, then the cyst will stop enlarging.

This is the general introduction about how Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy treats Polycystic Kidney Disease. Through restraining the generation of cyst fluid and reabsorbing cyst fluid, cyst can be shrunk effectively. In fact, besides these, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has many other functions such as anticoagulation, anti-inflammation and degrading extracellular matrix. What is more, all these functions are helpful in treating Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Kidney Disease Hospital and Chinese Medicines

If you get kidney disease, the first thing you will do is to see your doctor and ask for his advice. Then, you will take some tests to see what exactly your disease is. Sometimes a renal biopsy is also needed. As a result of these examination and diagnosis, you may receive some treatment. The treatment is mainly including two ways, say, hormone medication and surgery. Also, you may know that kidney disease cannot be cured easily so it will deteriorate constantly, so with time passing by, dialysis and kidney transplant are the only two choices for you to survive. Yes, these are all the western medicine can do for you.

You may ask: since there is no other choice, am I just sitting here and waiting for the dialysis and even death?

The answer is NO if you hear about the traditional Chinese medicine. And if you are now seeking for another effective treatment that can effectively help you to avoid dialysis, or you are searching for an specialized hospital in treating your kidney disease, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital will be a considerable choice.

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital adopts Traditional Chinese Medicines in treating kidney disease. Compared with western medicines, Chinese medicines can obviously avoid side effects and any other damages caused by western ones. Believe it or not, Chinese medicines is a magic culture and has already been proven to be effective by clinical cases through thousands of years in China, and almost all the Chinese people believe it. Although many people don't know how exactly the medicines take effect, when they are ill, they will firstly think of the Chinese medicines and want to see a Chinese medicine doctor very much in order to treat the disease while avoiding all the side effects of western pills.

Herbs have their medical functions, and there are meridians in human body. Therefore the effective components in Chinese herbal medicines really have their way to direct at the disease focus. You can not see the meridians or QI in human body clearly by your naked eyes, but after taking the medicine, you will find all the miraculous feelings by yourself. What's more, if you have tried the acupuncture, Chinese massage, or Chinese herbal medicated bath, you can know better about the Chinese culture on medicines and love it deeply.

Back Pain for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease

The causes of back pain for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease:

Back pain is caused by the enlargement of cysts. Cysts wall can secrete much fluids which contains many inflammatory cells. These fluids as well as the hyperplasia of inflammatory cells can enlarge cysts and also thicken cysts wall. Therefore, redundant cyst fluid will be accumulated in cysts so that cysts become bigger and bigger, which lead to the increase of kidney size. Bigger kidneys will oppress other organs in enterocoelia. Then uncomfortable feeling or back pain will occur.

How to relieve back pain for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease depends on the real condition of patients. Experts in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital will make a specific schedule for each patient. General treatment can be divided into two steps with the application of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.

Steps one is to restrain the size of cysts and reduce the size of cysts.

● Active substances in Micro-Chinese Medicines Osmotherapy can dilate blood vessels around cysts, improve blood circulation, improve the situation of ischemia and anoxia of kidneys, increase permeability of cyst wall, reduce inner pressure of cysts, change the situation that inner pressure of blood vessels is stronger than inner pressure of cysts, accelerate the resorption of excessive fluid in cysts of to blood vessels, restrain secretion of liquid and then restrain enlargement of cysts.

● Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can repair damaged intrinsic cells effectively through the functions of dilating blood vessels, promote blood circulation, anti-inflammation, decrease the secretion of inflammatory cells, anti-coagulation and degrading inflammatory cells.

Step two is to supply new kidney tissues so as to rebuild kidney function.

Prevent PKD Deteriorating into Kidney Failure

Ways to prevent the deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease:

1. Find disease early. According to statistic, 70% to 80% Polycystic Kidney Disease have the tendency of hereditary. If there is one people in family who is diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease, family members should do kidney test every half year or one year. The earlier people find Polycystic Kidney Disease the better treatment effect they can get.

2. Prevent or treat complications at early period. Hypertension, urine tract infection and cysts broken are common complications for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, which are also important reasons to cause kidney function damage. Therefore, patients should treat and control timely.

3. Fluid pumping puncture is a popular method which can pump fluid inside cysts out. However, this method is only appropriate for big cysts which are larger than 5cm. This method is easy to handle and have little damage to kidney tissues. The disadvantage for this method is easy to relapse.

4. Chinese Medicine for treating Polycystic Kidney Disease is effective and popular in recent years. As for patients with early-stage Kidney Failure caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy show great treatment effect. It can effectively control and decrease the size of cysts in kidneys so as to decrease the pressure to kidney tissues and then repair damaged kidney tissues.

5. Family health care and proper nutrition. Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease should keep good mood and take proper food. They should take fresh and light food, eat more fruits, control the intake of protein, stop smoking and drinking and stop eating spicy food. If people show edema, they should restrain the intake of salt. Don’t do strenuous exercise so as to avoid the broken of cysts.

Treat Cysts for Polycystic Kidney Disease

Body changes after cysts shrinking:

Constant growing of cysts will cause some complications such as hypertension, anemia, back pain and blood urine and so on. You can imagine that there are many capillaries in kidneys. When there are a lot of cysts growing up in kidneys, these cysts will occupy much space which belongs to capillaries. When cysts grow bigger, capillaries are oppressed seriously so that blood circulation slow down. The blockage of blood circulation will lead to anemia and anoxia in kidneys, thus kidney tissues will be damaged and then lead to kidney fibrosis.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital has obtained good therapeutic effect from shrinking the cysts and reducing the damage on renal tissues fundamentally.

This method is applied mainly through dilating blood vessels and improving the blood circulation of whole body.

The kidney blood perfusion can be increased by dilating renal artery, and the microcirculation of whole body also can be improved. By the adoption of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, the cell viability of cysts wall will be changed and permeability will be enhanced. Meanwhile, it also can stop the cysts wall cells excreting the liquid, therefore, the cysts can be shrunken from the root.

Along with the action of active substances of Chinese medicine, the pressure of the cysts to the surrounding nephrons can be eliminated and the ischemia and anoxia state also can be relieved, then the development of renal fibrosis can be delayed. Meanwhile, with the weakened release of vascular tension factors and the increase of vascular relaxing factors, the blood circulation of cysts wall can be enhanced. Then the blood pressure can be controlled gradually.

Surgical Operation’s Damage to Polycystic Kidney Disease

People with Polycystic Kidney Disease are usually afraid of the enlargement of cysts. Each time when people take check up, they are eager to see whether the cysts grow bigger. Yes, the enlargement of cysts will more serious damage kidney tissues and will influence kidney function. If people don’t take measures timely, Polycystic Kidney Disease can deteriorate into Kidney Failure.

For there is no method which can cure Polycystic Kidney Disease, doctors only can suggest patients cutting off cyst through surgical methods. Actually surgical operation can not treat Polycystic Kidney, and what’s more, will lead to deterioration of disease. You can imagine the cysts as the grass. The grasses under the tree are little and weak while the grasses around the big tree are very strong because they have enough space and nutrition to support them to grow.

The surgery which gets the big cysts cut off will leave more space for the small cysts to grow. It can only relieve the uncomfortable feelings of patients temporarily. Please remember that common methods don’t stand for good methods. We should take more advanced methods to treat Renal Cysts and Polycystic Kidney Disease for the medical science developing fast.

There are many people with Polycystic Kidney Disease who have done several times of surgical methods to cut off the cysts have realized that surgical operation can relieve the pain in a short time but the interval time of surgical operation is shortening. One of the patient who have done three times operation and there is scar covering her whole abdomen. She said to our doctor that she herself didn’t want to see her abdomen.

Therefore, people with Polycystic Kidney Disease should use methods that can decrease the size of cyst and stop the enlargement of cysts. Surgical operation is equal to leave more space to those small cysts. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can promote blood circulation and then lower the pressure inside the cysts so that redundant fluid inside cysts will be absorbed by cyst wall. It also has the function of providing nutrient substances to repair damaged kidney tissues. 

High Creatinine Level and Polycystic Kidney Disease

. The Reason for High Creatinine Level

The occurrence of high creatinine level mainly results from the kidney impairment. Without effective treatment, the kidney impairment will result in the inability of kidneys to remove creatinine produced by muscle and food they take.

In this condition, the creatinine that should have been discharged along with the urine will build up in blood. And then the high creatinine level occurs.

2. What Causes Kidney Impairment?

As above mentioned, it is kidney impairment that causes the elevated creatinine level. Well then, what causes kidney impairment? There are mainly two factors that cause it: the cyst enlargement and the rupture of the cysts.

3. Methods to Reduce Creatinine Level

we can see that patients should control the size of the cysts and prevent the rupture of the cysts, so that the kidney impairment will not occur.

To control the size of the cysts, patients are recommended to receive Chinese herbal medicines treatment. If necessary, patients have to take dialysis to survive. Apart from medical treatment, patients had better keep away from peppery food and alcohol in case of the rapid growth of the cysts.

To prevent the rupture of the cysts, patients should avoid doing strenuous exercise.

It is worth noting that Chinese herbal medicines can also help repair kidney impairment.

In conclusion, patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease had better take relevant tests (B Ultrasound or CT) to examine the size of the cysts. Once they present some discomfort, they should go to see a doctor as soon as possible.

Kidney Cyst Easily Relapses after Surgeries

The surgeries in treating Kidney Cyst

The renal epithelial cells’ proliferation blocks renal tubules, making the wastes can not pass out of body. And the enlarged renal cysts will stress adjacent renal parenchyma, which leads to the ischemia and anoxia of kidneys. After your kidneys suffer this condition for a period, you will feel uncomfortable. Then you may go to hospital.

If your cyst is so big that it reaches the size which can be treated by surgical operation. There are two options for you: laparoscopic kidney cyst ablation as well as percutaneous aspiration and alcohol sclerotherapy. They have the some advantage that they can release the pressure suffering from cysts immediately and simultaneously reduce some endogenous factors by means of eliminating the cyst fluid.

Why kidney Cyst relapse after surgeries

Since surgical operation can not change your constitution and repair the damaged renal tissues, small cysts will grow big, which indicates your Kidney Cyst may relapse. There is no treatment in western medicine developed into advanced level which can radically cure Kidney Cyst.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy in treating Kidney Cyst

Micro-Chinese medicine Osmotherapy as a compensation for the disadvantage of surgical operation can control the progress of Kidney Cyst.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can improve the ischemia and anoxia of your kidneys. Through increasing permeability of the cyst wall and decreasing the pressure in the cyst, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can cause the fluid to flow into the blood vessel, shrinking the cyst. In addition, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is able to restrain the epithelial cells of the cyst secreting fluid and further impede the growth of the cysts.

Does Simple Kidney Cysts Need No Treatment?

The reasons for treatments of Simple Kidney Cyst

It is seldom found in daily life apart from in regular checkups. If you have had discomforts like flank pain or back pain, the cysts probably have been about 5cm and have stressed other renal tissues. At this moment, it needs to be treated. The large kidney cysts will arouse high blood pressure for the growth of cyst have stressed the blood vessels nearby, caused anoxia in kidney and increased rennin. At times, Simple Kidney Cyst will have its complication such as obstruction in kidney calices and abdominal infection if they are broken.

It is important for patients with Simple Kidney Cyst to take regular checkups, because the cysts have the tendency of canceration. B ultrasound can not distinguish benign cysts from the cancerous cysts. In CT, cysts in Simple Kidney Cyst normally have one cavity with smooth wall, but the wall of cancerous cysts has thorns and various thickness.

Treatments in treating Simple Kidney Cyst

As some cysts in Simple Kidney Cysts might not grow, the small cysts without symptoms need not treatments or some or some oral medicines if necessary. Without complications, the cysts can be shrunk by absorbing its fluid insides and injected absolute alcohol. To ease the severe blood pressure, operation can be adopted to removed their top cells, releasing the pressure and fluids. As for the infected kidneys or possible cancerous cysts, kidney removal will be taken into consideration.

The Answers to Some Questions about Renal Cysts

What are these cysts?
Is their growth to be malignant?
Will I get any problems with it in future?
The key points in answering those three questions lie in assuring this cyst belongs to which kind of diseases, simple cysts, multiple cysts or Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). As this patient has had middle renal insufficiency, the cyst might be caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease if he or she has no other kidney diseases, but it still needs some other tests to assure.
Polycystic Kidney Disease
If it belongs to PKD, a kind of hereditary disease, this patient may have one or several relatives with PKD. With genetic flaw, urine is easily blocked in the joint of renal tubules and renal collecting ducts, promoting cells of this part proliferating and causing cysts. As cysts grow, other renal tissues will be squeezed to open renal fibrosis and lose their functions. The person with PKD is destined to have its symptoms on exertion. Without effective treatments, renal insufficiency and the End Stage Kidney Failure will occur sooner or later. Therefore, the cysts of PKD can not be malignant like cancer but their growth will bring Kidney Failure to the patients.
Simple cysts and multiple cysts
Both diseases have no relationship with genes. With unknown pathogenesis, most scholars attribute it to acquired wound, infection or cancer. Generally, they will not arouse severe symptoms. Those cysts are probably cured, for its cysts will not proliferate malignantly. They will not bring serious damages to renal intrinsic cells, so renal insufficiency or Kidney Failure usually can not be found among patients with Simple cysts or multiple cysts. Since the scan proves those cysts are benign, this cyst can not be kidney cancer, for benign cysts can be distinguished from cancer by their appearance in the scan.

Some Causing Factors of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease

The lack of blood and oxygen

As Kidney Diseases or Kidney Failure develops, renal tissues will be in severe lack of blood and oxygen, which might arouse changes of hemodynamics and promote cysts to grow. It is reported that patients with renalarteriolosclerosis have high risk of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, for kidneys seriously demand of blood and oxygen in renalarteriolosclerosis.

Blocking in kidney tubules

Urine usually decreases among patients with Kidney Diseases or Kidney Failure, which weakens the ability of kidney tubules washing away calcium salt and necrotic cells and form cylindruria. Cylindruria will arise blood pressure in kidney tubules, which promote urine to deposit and cause cysts. B2 micro globulin makes microlithiasis block kidney tubules, causing renal cysts.

Dialysis

During dialysis, there might be some waste products not removed like polyamine, depositing in body and causing cysts to form in the kidneys. With carcinogenicity, dimethyl nitrosamine (DMN) and disinfectants in the water used in dialysis might stimulate cysts to grow in kidneys.

Renal function decreasing

At the End Stage Kidney Failure, few normal nephrons are left, making mesangial cells and epithelial cells proliferate to make up for the lost renal function. Decreasing glomeruli filtration rate (GFR) will promote the secretion of growth hormone and parathyroid hormone, which both boost proliferation and transformation of renal tissues. In other words, decreasing renal function plays an important role in forming cysts.

The Diagnosis of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease

Cystic lesions are found in ultrasound examination or CT

As patients with Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease usually have no obvious symptoms, regular checkups are important for patients with Kidney Failure or on dialysis for over three years. At present, ultrasound examination or CT is enough sensitive and high-resolution that they can found cysts of 3cm. On being found, three cysts, 2cm to 3cm, have existed in kidneys at least.

Excluding Polycystic Kidney Disease

More than 90 percent cases are Polycystic Kidney Disease which is hereditary. Patients with PKD usually have family members with the same disease. However, Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease is not genetic. The patients have no similar history of cysts in their families. What’s more, PKD is associated with enlarged kidneys and cyst formation in other parts of the body. In Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease, the kidneys are normal sized or smaller and cysts do not form in other parts of the body.

The possibly of canceration

Polycystic Kidney Disease will not develop into renal carcinoma, but about 16 percent cases of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease may deteriorate into canceration. In renipuncture, cystic cells can be distinguished from cancerous cells. Clinically, symptoms in Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease are flank pain, blood in urine and lumps in waist, but the obvious symptoms of Kidney Cancer are fever, anemia and faster ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), etc. which are also often mistaken as Uremia in diagnosis.

Treatments of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease

Medicines in easing symptoms

If Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease is not causing pain or discomfort, no treatment is required. Infections are treated with a course of antibiotics. If large cysts are causing pain, hematuria, the cysts are treated as Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Surgeries

Unlike Polycystic Kidney Disease, cysts may cause severe bleeding and Wunderlich Syndrome which is fatal. With the possibility of cancer, surgeries will be applied to ease the bleeding. In those cases, surgery is used to stop cysts from bleeding and to remove tumors or suspected tumors. Surgeries are necessary for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease who are infected persistently by the secondary diseases such as kidney stone and abscess.

Kidney transplantation

After a person receives a transplanted kidney, the cysts usually shrink and even disappear in the diseased kidneys. Without infection or high blood pressure, the diseased kidneys are always left in place in transplantation. However, after transplantation, antiallergic drugs like immunosuppressive agents probably make those cysts become malignant cells. The cancerous cells may spread into other organs, destroying them. So some scholars consider cutting the diseased kidneys before transplantation to avoid possible infections and canceration.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy 

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has great advantage in shrinking renal cysts over other treatments. What’s more, it can enhance immune system and offer necessary substances for self-healing mechanism to repair the damaged renal tissues. With great power of differentiation,  Without severe renal insufficiency, patients possibly need not dialysis or get rid of dialysis, which not only protect and repair renal functions but also remove one cause of Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease.

The Difference between Hemodialysis and Hemofiltration

We know that Renal Failure patients usually take Hemodialysis, which can clean their blood. However, it cannot remove all the poisoning substances. There is another method named Hemofiltration, which usually is mistaken as Hemodialysis. So what is the difference between them?

The Difference between Hemodialysis and Hemofiltration

First, their principles are different. Hemodialysis involves diffusion of solutes across a semipermeable membrane. By concentration gradient and hydrostatic pressure across the membrane, excessive water, urea and other waste products are removed from blood to dialysate. Although Hemofiltration also achieves movement of solutes across a semi-permeable membrane, solute movement with Hemofiltration is governed by convection rather than by diffusion. Without dialysate, only a positive hydrostatic pressure drives water out and solutes get dragged through the membrane along with the flow of water at a similar rate.

Second, removed substances are different between Hemodialysis and Hemofiltration. As diffusion is used in Hemodialysis, only small substances can pass through the semi-permeable membrane, such as urea, potassium, and phosphate, but the large molecular weight solutes can not be removed. With the help of a positive hydrostatic pressure coursed by convection, it is better than Hemodialysis in moderate molecular and macro-molecular substances removal. Hemofiltration is more similar to glomeruli in the function of filtration.

Third, Hemofiltration is more suitable than Hemodialysis to some symptoms, such as Resistant Hypertension, Water Retention, Hypetension, Heart Failure caused by high blood volume, Uremic Pericardditis, Acut Renal Failure and Hepatic Coma. However, Hemofiltration also have disadvantages. Its price is higher than Hemodialysis due to the need of plentiful placement fluid. Blood pressure during Hemofiltration is not easy to control and low pressure and high pressure may occur if the volume is in imbalance. The small products may be not removed as effectively as Hemodialysis.

Therefore, which dialysis to choose depends on each patient’s individul condition instead of the disadvantages of those two dialyses.