Fatigue and Anemia in PKD

2014-06-26 06:49

PKD is a kind of genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will cause the kidney damage. Some PKD patients often complain that they feel fatigue and they have anemia, but they don’t know what cause this. In this article, we will give more information about the fatigue and anemia in PKD.

What can cause fatigue and anemia in PKD?

Anemia means the red blood cells in blood is lower than the normal level, and the low red blood cells will cause low hemoglobin level, which will make the hemoglobin fail to bring enough oxygen to body tissues and cells. And this will cause the body loss of oxygen, and make people feel fatigue.

For PKD patients, the enlargement of kidney cysts will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. As we know, healthy kidneys have the function of producing a hormone (EPO), which will cause less of red blood cells, then PKD patients will get anemia easily. And patients will also feel fatigue easily.

How to treat the fatigue and anemia in PKD?

From above we can know that the fatigue and anemia are mainly caused by the kidney damage, and the kidney damage is mainly caused by the enlargement of kidney cysts in PKD. So PKD patients need to have treatment to shrink the kidney cysts and improve the kidney function, which can help make a good prognosis for them.

Here we recommend PKD patients to take Chinese medicine, which can help reach the two purposes. Chinese medicine uses traditional herbs, and the effective substances in herbs can shrink the big kidney cysts, and it can also help repair the damaged kidney tissues and improve the kidney function.

Once the kidney function is improved, the fatigue and anemia can be controlled fundamentally. If you still have some questions after reading, you can contact with our doctor online, or live a message.

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