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People who have Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease are rather concerned how long they could live with this disease and how about their prognosis. PKD with the slowly enlarging cysts can cause gradual deterioration of the kidney condition. There is no available data as to how long a person with the disease can live, but some risk factors may be associated with poorer prognosis of the disease. What’s more, we need to know that proper treatment is the most essential way to improve the prognosis of PKD.
What is the prognosis of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)?
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is an inherited type of kidney disorder that causes numerous cysts to grow in both of the two kidneys. Adult PKD is what one is born with, but appears and poses symptoms in one’s adulthood. PKD with the cysts enlarging compress adjacent renal tissues; when this happens, it will cause blood pressure to increase. This typically occurs from one’s 30s. Earlier onset of PKD has been linked to poorer prognosis of the disease.
In PKD, there are so many fluid-filled cysts that give the kidney a balloon surface. The cysts grow larger and larger to compress the kidneys and cause gradual kidney deterioration. In the end-stage of the disease, the kidneys are failed so the patients will have to start dialysis or kidney transplant. In the developing course, some wrong living habits, such as drinking alcohol, cigarettes, eating too much meat, can promote the progression of PKD and overload the kidneys.
The patients with PKD should develop healthy living habits and proper dietary modifications to delay the deterioration. PKD complications such as liver cysts, pancreas cysts and cerebral aneurysm can worsen the prognosis of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease so the patients should take care for early prevention, detection and treatment for these conditions.
How to improve the prognosis of Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)?
The cysts that develop in PKD kidneys should be controlled from enlarging and the kidneys should be protected in the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Chinese herbal medicine treatment that shrinks enlarging cysts and improves the kidneys can be used in the treatment.
In Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), the pressure within blood vessels is bigger than that within the cysts, and the cystic walls could secrete liquid continuously to enlarge the cysts; the growing cysts damage its surrounding renal cells to decrease kidney functions. Chinese herbal medicine treatment expands blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation and soften cystic walls; this creates a force to drive cystic liquid into blood vessels and discharge out of the body. If the cysts can be controlled then kidneys are protected from further being damaged.
An external application of Chinese herbal medicine, called as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, saves stimulation to the patients’ intestines and make the patients comfortable during the whole treatment process. If PKD can be controlled and treated at earlier stages, it can be prevented from developing into advanced stages and the patients can expect healthier and happy life; the prognosis can be greatly improved in way of this.
