14.7 cm Renal Cyst: Is It Big And Dangerous for PKD Patients

2014-04-09 03:12

Is 14.7 cm renal cyst big and dangerous for PKD patients? Polycystic kidney disease is an inherent kidney disease, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time. Patients may have no symptoms when the renal cysts are small. However, when the renal cysts get enlarged, they will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues which will cause kidney damage.

14.7 cm renal cyst is really big and dangerous for PKD patients

In general, when the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, doctor will ask the patients to have surgery to shrink the kidney cyst , because the larger than 4 cm kidney cysts will cause kidney damage easily. From this aspect, you can know that 14.7 cm renal cyst is really big and dangerous for PKD patients. Through a contrast, the normal kidney size is 9-11 cm, the renal cyst is 14.7 cm, which is even bigger than the normal kidneys, so you can know that 14.7 cm renal cyst is dangerous for PKD patients. And it will easily get ruptured, and the kidney cyst ruptures will cause some serious symptoms, such as infection, abdomen pain, back pain, blood urine, fever, etc, which will cause some severe damages to kidneys.

In this condition, we will give some beneficial suggestions to PKD patients with 14.7 cm renal cyst.

1. Have a good rest

In order to prevent the cyst rupture, patients need to lay on bed to have a good rest and reduce the needless exercises to make burden to the waist. Because the cyst is so big, even a slight push can cause the cyst rupture.

2. Have immediate test to hospital

Since the renal cyst is so big, so patients need to go to hospital immediately. In this condition, the big kidney cyst will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. So patients need to have urine test to get whether there is protein or blood in urine, they also need to have blood test to get their creatinine level and measure their residual kidney function.

3. Shrink the big renal cyst

PKD patients need to have treatment to shrink the big renal cyst as soon as possible to prevent the cyst rupture. Patients can take some natural treatment to shrink the cyst without a surgery. The featured therapy is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which can help suppress the excretion of fluid in cyst and remove the fluid form cyst. Through a systemic treatment, it will help shrink renal cyst naturally. (If you want to get more treatment information, you can browse the page How to Shrink Polycystic Kidney Cysts)

4. Repair the kidney damage

When the big kidney cyst cause kidney damage, the kidney function will be reduced, so patients need to have effective treatment to repair the kidney damage and improve the kidney function. If you want to get more detailed treatment information, you can contact with our doctor online. They will answer you freely.

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