Many PKD patients are wondering to know how fast their cysts grow. This
question varies from patients to patients. At present, there is no exact
statistic to exactly analyze this phenomenon.
Generally speaking, the cysts begin to grow when they are born because the
cysts are caused by the faulty genes. In the early 30 years, the cysts grow very
slow and these cysts do not pose any symptoms. However, the cysts begin to grow
fast when people are at the age of 40-60. At this time, a series of symptoms
will make people very worried. These symptoms can be flank pain, backache,
hematuria, high blood pressure urinary tract infections. Thus, patients will
progress into kidney failure very soon and death will be very near.
The growth speed of these cysts depends on the treatment of the cysts to a
large extent.
If have received surgeries to have pumped the cysts or have removed the
cysts. The smaller ones will grow more exuberantly and cause greater damage to
the kidney functions. That is to say, the surgeries do not control the growth of
the cysts. On the contrary, surgeries speed up the growth of the smaller cysts.
So, choose a proper treatment is very important.
If you receive a natural treatment such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, the
cysts can be under control gradually. Perhaps no doctors can guarantee the cysts
will be controlled permanently, but kidney failure can be stopped on its track.
In this way, the kidney cysts will grow very slowly.
Also, some other factors like diet, physical activities can also affect the
growth of kidney cysts. Bad diet principle can aggravate the kidneys worsening
and cysts growth.
All in all, the cysts can grow very fast when they are ignored. Patients
should receive treatment as early as possible to control their cysts and repair
their kidney functions.
