How Long Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients Live

2015-07-07 15:30

How long can people live with polycystic kidney disease (PKD)? This should be one of the most common questions for people when they were diagnosed with PKD. Because PKD is an inheritable disease and there is no specific treatment at present to cure it completely.

Then how long can PKD patients live with their disease?

PKD is genetic kidney disease with numerous cysts formed on kidneys, and the cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which can oppress surrounding kidney tissues and finally cause kidney damage. PKD is a progressive kidney disease, as the researches show that PKD patients will have high blood pressure in their 30 years old, high creatinine level in 40s and kidney failure in 50s. Once patients develop into kidney failure, they may need to live on dialysis to live, but the beverage life expectancy of dialysis is approximately 5 years. From this, we can see that patients will have a bad prognosis once they were diagnosed with PKD. Please don’t worry, there is still some methods that can help prolong the life expectancy for patients.

Then how to prolong the life expectancy for PKD patients?

1. Control the risk factors

For PKD patients, they may suffer from some severe symptoms, such as high blood pressure, blood urine, urinary tract infection, large kidney cysts and proteinuria, and the unwell controlled of these factors will worsen their disease and cause further damage to kidneys, so patients need to control well of these factors.

2. Keep a well planed diet

A well planed diet can help reduce the kidney burden and prevent the enlargement of the kidney cysts, then it can help protect the kidneys. And the diet should depend on the own illness condition of patients. You can send your recent test reports to chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com, we can help analyze your disease and make a well planed diet chart to you.

3. Shrink the kidney cysts

The most important thing for PKD patients to prolong their life expectancy is taking medical treatment to shrink their kidney cysts. Here we recommend the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which has the function of shrinking the kidney cysts and prevent the growth of the kidney cysts. In addition, it can also help repair the damaged kidney tissues and improve the kidney function.

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