Your Family Health History and Kidney Disease

2015-07-27 02:13

People whose family has disease history are at high risk of this disease, which means you are more likely to get it than others who have no disease history in family. Kidney disease occurs more and more frequently in our life. Here we will mostly talk about relations of family health history and kidney disease.

According to research and statistics, high blood pressure, diabetes and kidney disease are closely related with inherited genes. If parents both have high blood pressure, child has the 46 percent of possibility to suffer from it. If one of parents has high blood pressure, morbidity is 28% for children. For patients with diabetes, the rate of getting Diabetes in their children is 15-20 times than ones whose family has no diabetes. PKD is a leading inherited kidney disease, and children have 50% possibility of suffering from PKD.

In addition, high blood pressure and diabetes are two leading causes of kidney disease. Because kidney may be damaged with these two disease, affecting kidney function. It is very likely that people whose family has high blood pressure or diabetes prevent these disease with a healthy lifestyle and good habits in daily life. They should eat a healthy diet, avoiding high fat, high cholesterol food. Smoking and drinking should be forbidden. Taking some exercise regularly is beneficial, too. Moreover, eating less rich sugar and salt food is very necessary. As for patients with PKD , if child are examined to have PKD genes, it is important to get timely and appropriate treatment when it appears at the middle age. Otherwise, kidney failure may be resulted in. Chinese medicine is very effective to shrink kidney cyst and improve kidney conditions.

From the above, we can see diseases related with genes may be inherited by children. But if getting effective prevention and good care, children can avoid it. People should have a healthy lifestyle, which can help prevent kidney disease. For PKD parents, it is very necessary to do examination to diagnose PKD genes for babies.

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