How does Polycystic Kidney Disease Affect the Patient

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a progressive disease and the development of this disorder can be divided into 5 stages. Different stages of PKD have varied effects to patient's life.

1. Emergence stage

As a kind of genetic disease, patients may be born with the cyst, but it is too small to be checked out before the age of 20. Therefore, for those people who have family history of PKD, you had better go for regular check in order to detect the disease as early as possible.

2. Growth stage

When patients are at the age of 30~40, the cyst will grow faster, and we need to closely observe the development of disease. In this stage, western medicine has no effective treatment and they consider that there is no need to adopt therapeutic method to treat but only to prescribe certain medicines to remedy various symptoms, such as high blood pressure. Actually, it's not wise to do like this, and you need to find better treatment in Chinese medicine to slow the growth of cyst and prevent further deterioration of your disease.

3. Tumefaction stage

Without timely measures, the cyst will grow continuously and swell after the age of 40. If the size of cyst grows to more than 4cm or cyst ulceration occurs, we call this stage tumefaction stage. Then you may present clinical manifestations including back pain, proteinuria, hematuria, hypertension and so on. Integrated Chinese and western medicine can still be used to repair the damaged renal function and treat polycystic kidney.

4. Cyst ulceration stage

Affected by some external factors, cyst ulceration may happen due to continuous growth of the cyst. In this case, what patient should do is to receive prompt treatment in hospital, have a good control of infection, avoid septicemia and repid deterioration of kidney function.

5. Uremia stage

If you progress to this stage unfortunately, you can still adopt positive treatment of Uremia and protect the remaining renal function. For those who are in the ultimate stage, you may have to under dialysis to sustain life.