Many Polycystic Kidney Disease patients do not pay enough attention on their
disease in the early stage, even though there are people with the same disease
in their family and they know clearly what will happen in the future. This is
only because there is no obvious symptoms in the early stage and no discomforts
can be felt. However, the fact is that Polycystic Kidney Disease is more
dangerous than other kind of kidney disease.
In the early stage, the cysts are very small and they will not cause serious
damage to surrounding kidneys. No obvious symptoms can be in this stage.
However, cysts will keep enlarging continuously under gene action. With cysts
enlarging, the pressure on surrounding kidney tissue from cysts will also
increase gradually. Day by day, kidney cells that are near these cysts will be
lack of blood and oxygen, leading to further kidney damage gradually. When the
damage involves to more than 50% kidney, a series of symptoms will begin to
appear.
Patients always begin to pay more attention on this disease in this
stage.
However, when they are looking for treatments, only medicines for blood
pressure or anti-infection are given. The progress of Polycystic Kidney Cysts
keep enlarging, so does the size of kidney. With disease progress further,
kidney as well as cysts will be full of the abdomen. Meanwhile, the disease will
also get to end stage due to continuous declining kidney function. When the
disease gets into end stage, dialysis or kidney transplant will be the only
choice for polycystic kidney disease patients. If patients want to avoid
dialysis or kidney transplant, an early and effective treatment is more
important for polycystic kidney disease patients. If you want to learn more
about this, you can send an email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us
online.
