Do Feet Swell in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-08-17 07:34

Do feet swell in polycystic kidney disease (PKD)? This is a common question for all the PKD patients when they have some severe symptoms such as feet swelling. In this article, we will have further understanding of this question, and we hope this will be helpful for PKD patients who have feet swelling.

What can cause feet swell in PKD?

As we know, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and PKD is a progressive kidney disease. Patients have polycystic gene since they were born, and the PKD will occur in their 30s. In early stage of PKD, patients will have no symptoms, because the kidney cysts are small enough. However, with the increase and enlargement of kidney cysts, patients will have kidney damage, and they will finally get into end stage kidney failure.

Kidneys have the function of removing the excess fluid in body. However, for PKD patients, when their kidneys are damaged by the enlargement of kidney cysts, the kidneys will fail to work well, which will cause the fluid retention in body, then patients will have swelling. Swelling often occurs in loosen tissues first, such as eyelids, face, hands, feet and ankles. Then PKD patients will have feet swell.

How to treat the feet swelling in PKD patients?

From above, we can know that the feet swelling is mainly caused by the low kidney function, and the low kidney function is mainly caused by the enlargement of kidney cysts, so PKD patients need to have effective treatment to shrink the big kidney cysts and stop the increase of kidney cysts.

Here we recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which uses traditional Chinese herbs, and through external treatment, the effective substances in herbs can work on kidneys directly.

The active substances in herbs can help suppress the secretion of fluid in cyst and it can also help remove the fluid in cyst, all these can help shrink the kidney cysts and prevent the growth of kidney cysts. In addition, it can also help repair the kidney damage and improve the kidney function.

Once the kidney cysts are controlled well, and the kidney function can work well, the feet swelling can be controlled from root. If you want to get more information about the treatment, you can contact with our online doctor, or you can also leave a message. We will answer you as soon as possible.

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