PKD: Do Not Wait for Symptoms Appearance

As for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients, no symptoms can be found in the early stage of this disease. For this reason, patients do not pay attention on this disease even though they know they are having this disease. Does ‘no symptoms’ equal to ‘no seriousness’? Is it really not serious?

Actually, just because there are no symptoms in the early stage, most of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients have missed the best treatment opportunity. When symptoms begin to appear, it usually means that cysts have already caused certain damage to kidney and kidney function has already been declines.

Most of Polycystic Kidney Disease patients have family history of this disease, so they know clearly what will happen if this disease progressed into end stage. Some of their family members may die from this disease; some may be accepting dialysis or waiting for a donor for Kidney Transplant; some may have already accepted Kidney transplant but now their kidneys fail again, etc. Even though they know so clearly about the harms of this disease, they seldom pay high attention on the disease they are having because they do not feel discomforts. They do not concern it seriously until symptoms, like high blood pressure, increasing creatinine, blood in urine, etc, appear. However, when these symptoms appear, it means declined kidney function. As we all know, symptoms always happen after pathological damage occurrence. So when patients feel discomforts, kidney damage has already been declined. Once kidney function declines, the difficulty of the treatment is greatly increased.

Actually, if patients can find this disease and accept effective treatment before symptoms appear and kidney function decline, Polycystic Kidney Disease can be controlled and stopped effectively. As a result, patients will not need dialysis or transplant. What’s more, the therapeutic effect is much better for patients who are still in the early stage of this disease. If you need more information about this, you can email to kidneyfailurecn@hotmail.com or consult us online.