Polycystic Kidney Disease Cause Kidney Growth

You may suffer from kidney growth if you are a Polycystic Kidney Disease patient. With kidney growth, you may found you have enlarged abdomen and also you can feel the bump when you touch your abdomen with your hands. Well then, how does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause kidney growth and how does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause bumps under abdomen?

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a hereditary kidney disorder marked by different sizes cysts in kidney. In early stage of Polycystic Kidney Disease, there is no or only several cysts in kidney. At that time, cysts in kidney are less and small, so you may feel nothing different. However, with time goes by, more and more cysts emerge, which makes your kidney looks different from normal kidney. Mostly, these cysts are filled with yellow fluids which are usually urine. They enlarge over time and when they enlarge to a certain size, they begin to oppress surrounding renal tissues, and this makes some renal tissues unable in functioning. Our kidneys work through renal tissues and when renal tissues fail to work, kidney function decreases.

Kidney growth occurs when there are lots of big cysts in kidney. As we have mentioned above, cysts in kidney enlarge over time, and when they enlarge to a certain size, there is no space for them in kidney and they begin to take up abdominal cavity, which makes our kidney become larger. This is the general introduce about how Polycystic Kidney Disease cause kidney growth. Kidney cysts enlarge with the increase of fluid inside the cyst, so the pressure inside the cyst is very large and when you touch your enlarged kidney, you can feel hard bumps.

Kidney growth symptom can be avoided if we can stop Polycystic Kidney Disease in early stage. Polycystic Kidney Disease progresses with the enlargement of cysts in kidney. Therefore, as long as effective medical treatment is given, not only kidney growth, but also kidney failure can be avoided effectively.