What are the Effects of PKD on Red Blood Cells

2014-07-14 08:20

What are the effects of PKD on red blood cells? As we know, PKD is an inherent kidney disease disease, and there are numerous kidney cysts on kidneys. And the kidney cysts will be gradually increased and get enlarged over time, which will cause kidney damage. And the PKD will affect the normal function of kidneys, and it can affect the red blood cells in blood.

What are the effects of PKD on red blood cells?

As we know, kidneys have the function of producing the EPO (erythropoietin), which has the function of increasing the red blood cells. For PKD patients, once they have kidney damage, the kidneys will fail to produce enough EPO, which will cause the reduce of blood cells in blood. And this will cause anemia for PKD patients.

In addition, if PKD patients have a long term of hematuria, they can also have the reduction of red blood cells in urine, and this will cause anemia as well.

How to improve the red blood cells in PKD?

From above, we can know that the loss of red blood cells will cause anemia in PKD, which will make patients weaker and weaker, and it will make a bad prognosis for them. So PKD patients need to have effective treatment to improve the red blood cells.

1. Shrink the kidney cysts and improve the kidney function

Since the loss of red blood cells is mainly caused by the kidney damage and the kidney damage is mainly caused by the enlargement of kidney cysts, so PKD patients need to have effective treatment to shrink the kidney cysts and improve the kidney function.

Here we recommend Chinese herbal treatment for PKD patients, which can help repair the kidney damage and improve their kidney function, and this can also help shrink the kidney cysts and prevent the increase of kidney cysts. You can read the following passage, What Can Shrink Cyst in Polycystic Kidney Disease. 

2. Injection of EPO and drugs

The most direct way for PKD patients is to take injection of EPO and drugs, which can help improve the red blood cells in blood.

3. Diet

Diet can also help improve the red blood cells, so PKD patients need to keep a well planed diet. Since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so the specific diet will also be different from case to case. You can send your recent test reports to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, our experts can help you analysis your illness condition, and make a well planed diet for you.

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