How to Improve the Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease prognosis refers to the possible life of patients in future. For Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, they can live a better life, compared with these who has a poor prognosis. Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease can be affected by many factors, so it is possible for patients to improve their prognosis by making some actions. Well then, what we can do to improve Polycystic Kidney Disease prognosis?

1. Get Polycystic Kidney Disease symptoms controlled

With Polycystic Kidney Disease, we may suffer from various symptoms like blood in urine, protein in urine, back pain and anemia and so on. All these symptoms occur when Polycystic Kidney Disease causes kidney damages, so they are caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease. However, although they result from PKD, they affect PKD directly.

Clinical studies show that PKD patients who get their symptoms controlled effectively usually have a better prognosis than these who did not control PKD symptoms. Therefore, if PKD patients want to improve their prognosis, controlling Polycystic Kidney Disease symptoms is very essential.

2. Follow a scientific diet

For PKD patients, a scientific diet is very helpful as a study did has proven that a right diet can slow down the progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease. However, what is a scientific diet for PKD patients. Actually, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients have different dietary principles because of different illness conditions. But they generally follow low-salt diet, low-protein diet, low-potassium diet and low-phosphorus diet if lab test show they have high level of phosphorus.

3. Stop kidney cyst from enlarging

Polycystic Kidney Disease progresses with the decreasing of kidney function which is caused by gradual enlargement of kidney cyst. Preventing the enlargement of kidney cyst will help to avoid further kidney damages. Therefore, finding an effective treatment to stop kidney cyst from enlarging is very helpful.

Lastly, Polycystic Kidney Disease is a hereditary problem. Although we can not change PKD gene, through our effects, we can improve the prognosis of it greatly and struggle for living a better life.