Life Span of Man with Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-03-12 02:06

What is the life span of man with adult polycystic kidney disease? This is a common question that most people concerned when they suffer from PKD. As we know, PKD is an inherited kidney disease with numerous cysts occurred in kidneys, and the cysts will increase and get enlarged over time. The increase and enlargement of kidney cysts will also oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage.

When people is diagnosed with PKD, they may have no symptoms in their early stage, and in this time, the kidneys are not damaged as well. However, with the increase and enlargement of kidney cysts, the kidney tissues will be damaged, then people will suffer form some obvious symptoms, such as blood urine, proteinuria, back pain, kidney dysfunction and kidney stones. All these will make people suffer from a low life quality.

What are the life span of man with adult PKD?

The time of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) developing into end stage kidney failure is very low, and the average life time of patients is about 50 years old. When people have the symptoms mentioned above, the mean survival time is about 10years. However, since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so the life span will be different as well. There are also some people have no symptoms all their life long.

Although some PKD patients may develop into end stage kidney failure, they can also have some alternative treatments, such as dialysis, kidney transplant to prolong their life expectancy, and the most long living time for PKD patients is more than 10 years.

How to prolong the life span for man with adult PKD?

From above, we can know that the certain time for a man to live with adult PKD is not sure, it can be decided by many factors, such as age, symptoms, complications, lifestyle and certain treatment. Therefore, man with adult PKD can change these factors to prolong their life span.

- Keep a certain diet and keep a healthy life style

PKD patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet and a healthy life style. They can ask their doctors to help them make a specific diet depending on their own illness condition, and so some proper exercise to improve their immune system, and give up smoking and drinking alcohol, all these will be helpful for their illness condition.

- Effective treatment

PKD patients also need to have prompt and effective treatment when they were diagnosed with PKD, and the early and effective treatment will help slow down or prevent the progression of kidney failure. They need to have certain treatment, which can help shrink the kidney cysts, control the symptoms and repair the damaged kidney tissues. Here we recommend them to use Chinese therapies, which can help them reach these purposes and help them get rid of dialysis and kidney transplant.

From above, we can know that the life span can be prolonged through a certain treatment and help prevent end stage kidney failure. So all the man with adult PKD should believe that they can be treated very well by a certain treatment, and they can live a long life.

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