How Does PKD Effect Pregnancy

2015-07-23 07:59

PKD is a kind of genetic disease, and explains kidney cyst grows and enlarges by the time, damaging surrounding tissues and organs. PKD is divided into ARPKD and ADPKD. ARPKD is very rare , and patients who have ARPKD die in babyhood. For ADPKD, it belongs to dominant heredity, so child of patients with ADPKD has the half of possibility of getting the disease.

Deterioration of PKD can make kidney damaged, causing kidney failure. reproductive hormones are affected, making female patients with PKD difficult to conceive. In addition, female patients have the high risk of miscarriage because they need to take medicines to control high blood pressure which is a very common symptom of PKD.

Thus, if patients with PKD want to be pregnant, they should talk with doctors carefully. Doctors will give you the best suggestions, for instance, some medicines for PKD need to be stopped, or exchanged for other ones. Patients with PKD can not stop eating medicine by themselves. High blood pressure of patients with PKD is an important indicator of deciding whether to have babies. In the process of pregnancy, patients with PKD should take care of the below things to make sure there is no accident:

1.Keep blood pressure in control well, and take some medicines doctors suggested that are harmless to pregnancy.

2.Weight gain is dangerous, patients should avoid much fat and keep themselves in good shape.

3.Patients with PKD should go to do examination regularly, making pregnancy under supervision. If there is anything wrong, doctors can find the way to solve it.

According to experience, a majority of patients with PKD who are pregnant give birth to babies very safely and smoothly finally. In a word, before you plan to have babies, it is very necessary to consult your doctors. If your conditions are qualified for pregnancy, with good care and supervision babies can be given birth to successfully.

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