How to Manage My Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) in the Daily Life

A healthy daily care is generally considered as the best natural treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease. It can control the various symptoms of PKD, keeping your kidneys healthy for longer. So dialysis can be delayed or even avoided. Therefore, arrange a healthy daily care is an effective way to slow the progression of your disease.

■ Have a good control of blood pressure

Most of people with PKD have high blood pressure before renal function occurs damage. The occurrence of high blood pressure may accelerate the decline of kidney function. Besides, it may lead to cerebrovascular damage. Therefore, have a good control of the blood pressure is very important. Generally, you had better control it within 130/80mmHg.

■ Protect from being affected by a cold

Patients should take care themselves carefully and change clothes timely with climate variation. A cold, especially a repeated cold, will aggravate the renal damage and accelerate the progression of the disease.

■ Low-protein diet

Protein is broken down by the liver, and a waste product called urea is produced. Our kidneys are responsible to get rid of wastes, so excess protein intake will put a strain on the kidneys.

The daily intake of 8g protein per kilo of body weight is recommended. You are suggested to eat less meat, cheese, and avoid beans, bean products. Use vegetables and grains as the main dishes and healthy fats such as avocados and olive oil can be added when excess calories are needed.
■ Avoid factors that may lead to cysts rupture in daily life

 Drink less or avoid drinking alcohol, especially wine and liquor.Stop smoking. This will cause further enlargement of the cysts and increase their risk of rupture. Avoid demanding sports like football, basketball, baseball, etc. However, golfing, walking, running, swimming is permitted.

If you want to get more information about polycystic kidney disease, you can send mail to kidney-support@hotmail.com or free chat and online experts, she will give you more help.

How to Treat Hematuria Caused by PKD

After the centrifugal precipitation of urine, if there exist more than 5 red blood cells in it under each high power field, it is medically called Hematuria. Hematuria is one of the symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).

Hematuria caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is the common symptom among PKD patients. Only few PKD patients have fewer cysts or bleeding in early stage, Cysts can grow increasingly in the majority of PKD patients’ body, which can arouse cysts rupture and bleeding finally. For cysts growing causes pressure which results in cysts’ wall rupture and bleeding. Bleeding volume is not the same, and over 60% of PKD patients have once bleeding in their life.

How to treat PKD hematuria? No matter what types of PKD hematuria, they are all caused by the enlargement of cysts, so the key point of treatment is to contract cysts. Combination of traditional Chinese medicine with the Western medicine is the best way of treating PKD. Western medicine mainly copes with symptoms, while traditional Chinese medicine treats disease from pathogenesis by controlling the enlargement of cysts, which is realized through inactivation of epithelial cells of cysts. Then with reduced cyst liquid secretion, cysts will stop growing.

In addition, experts remind that the key point of treating hematuria is to treat it from its resource-the cysts of kidney. So patients should prevent from the enlargement and burst of cysts positively. The treatment of the cysts is the fundamental method. If you have other questions, please contact us on-line or by email.

Is there any Novel therapy for FSGS

FSGS (focal segmental glomerulosclerosis) is a complex immune kidney disease.  In fact, many people’s condition cannot be controlled well, so most of patients are seeking a novel therapy for FSGS. Clinical experience indicates that conventional treatment is not sufficient in this case, is the best natural therapy. It has been proven that immunotherapy plays a significant role in the treatment of FSGS.

FSGS mainly attacks the glomeruli which are responsible for filtering blood. Once the glomeruli are damaged severely, they will lose the normal filtration function and can not prevent the leakage of protein, red blood cells into urine thus resulting in proteinuria and hematuria and even Nephrotic Syndrome.

Immunotherapy for FSGS has been found to be extremely effective. It is a breakthrough in the filed of kidney disease treatment.

How much time does immunotherapy take?

FSGS is a refractory and chronic disease. There is no shortcut to its cure. The length of treatment varies with different patients, depending on the following factors:

1. Duration of FSGS

2. Extent of kidney damage

3. Overall health condition and associated complications

4. Frequency of relapses of FSGS

What to expect after the treatment?

* Short-term treatment effect

The systemic toxic symptoms disappear;

Digestive tract symptoms and appetite improves;

Electrolytes imbalance is corrected;

Blood pressure recover stable;

Anemia and other associated diseases recover.

* Long-term treatment effect

Blood creatinine level recovers normal;

Protein in urine disappears;

GFR recovers normal level;

Immune system regains its normal anti-disease function.

Novel therapy for FSGS will benefit the people who always have protein or blood in urine repeatedly and it can prevent the further development of FSGS. You can consult our experts for more information.