Do You Know the Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease?

Polycystic Kidney Disease, an inherited disease, is life-threatening to us. So the patients who are getting treatment of this disease may want to know the prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease.

According to genetic characteristics, PKD is divided into two types: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD). ADPKD is more common in the real world. ADPKD usually occurs in the family gathered, the female and the male have equal opportunity to suffer from this disease, and the patients may appear in successive generations. ARPKD (also known as infantile polycystic kidney disease) usually occurs in infancy. Only a few ARPKD patients can live to children and even adults. According to the different conditions, PKD patients will have different prognosises after their treatment.

Because individual differences of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients are very big, the course of their disease is related to their complications. If the patient have a lot of complications, his prognosis is relatively worse, while the patient’s prognosis is better if he has renal insufficiency but no complications. So the complications treatment is the key to the patients’ prognosis. The smaller age PKD patient’s symptoms appear in, the worse his prognosis will be. Most patients can live about ten years, after his clinical symptoms appear. Without dialysis or kidney transplant, the average age of PKD patients is fifty years old. The main causes of this disease are kidney failure, cardiac failure, intracranial hemorrhage and lung infection.

Now we have known how terrible Polycystic Kidney Disease is, so we must take some measures to prevent this disease in our daily life.

·Healthy diet: Don’t eat unclean food and cold foods, also get enough nutrition.

·Prevent colds: Cold is one of the most important factors that cause the occurrence of PKD.

·Strengthen exercise: Lack of exercise can make the kidney blood flow slow and aggravate the kidney damage.

The prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease is not so good, so the PKD patients should pay more attention to their nursing in everyday life and take the treatment actively.