At What Age Do Most PKD Patients Go On Dialysis

2014-12-06 02:14

In some countries, it is believed that all the PKD patients will necessarily need dialysis someday. For this reason, many PKD patients wonder at what stage they will go on dialysis.

In medicine, dialysis is required by PKD patients when their residual kidney function is not effective enough to ensure the safety of their life. Generally speaking, they need to considerate doing dialysis when their GFR is lower than 15, but in reality, many PKD patients do not start dialysis until their life is threatened serious and at that time their GFR is usually lower than 10.

For ADPKD, it usually appears when patients are at their 20 and progresses quickly when they are at their 30. For ADPKD patients who are about 40 years old, they always experience lots of physical discomforts like back pain, blood urine, tiredness, poor appetite, high blood pressure, etc, because their kidney function has been severely damaged at that time. They are more likely to start dialysis when they are over 50.

What we talked about above is the general condition, but in reality, PKD patients may start dialysis earlier or later. So far there is no cure for PKD, because no medicine or treatment has been proven to be able to remove PKD from one’s body. Because of this, many PKD patients are told there is nothing they can do but wait for dialysis after the diagnosis. That is true, there is no cure for polycystic kidney, but there are things we can do to slow down or even stop illness progression.

In PKD, kidney tissues are damaged due to increased and enlarged kidney cysts. These cysts are fluid-filled. They oppress surrounding kidney tissues and make them unable to get enough oxygen and nutrients from blood. When this condition lasts for a long time, they become necrotic and lose their working ability. Dialysis is needed when most of the kidney tissues are damaged. As of now there is no treatment to remove PKD gene, but there is treatment that can shrink cysts in kidney and protect kidney tissues from being damaged. The treatment we talke about is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It is a herbal treatment and to make sure PKD patients can receive obvious treatment effects in short time, it is usually used together with some other Chinese treatment like Mai Kang Mixture, Foot Bath and also some oral herbs.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a very effective treatment to help PKD patients avoid dialysis. Besides, as all the herbs are used externally, so no side effects are caused during the whole treatment process. If you are a PKD patient and want to avoid dialysis with this herbal treatment, please contact online doctor or leave a message below.

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