The Basic Knowledge of Polycystic Kidney Disease

The Basic Knowledge of Polycystic Kidney Disease 
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a common polycystic kidney disease, which is caused by one of the main reasons for kidney failure patients. Patients can grow in many different sizes of kidney cysts, and cysts will gradually grow, and gradually the patient's kidney oppression.

Polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary kidney disease, it can not be cured. But most of the slow development of polycystic kidney disease, so patients can be aggressive disease prevention and control.

1. Cause:

Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic disease, so most patients the disease is due to genetic variation genetic parents.

But there are a lot of patients with polycystic kidney disease does not come from genetic, leaving from mutations caused by many other factors, such as toxins, poor diet and living habits, mutations embryonic stage, and so on.

2. Symptoms:

Cyst growing up in the process, patients with cystic kidney patients oppression and destruction, the patient's body can be a lot of symptoms. And when the development of renal failure in patients with polycystic kidney disease, you can cause more problems in the patient's body.

In general, most of the symptoms of polycystic kidney disease patients often have high blood pressure, kidney pain, fatigue, hematuria, joint pain, muscle twitching, itching, loss of appetite, mouth odor, and so on.

But the development of renal failure in patients with renal disease or renal damage during the severe cases, patients may be more symptoms, such as pain, decreased memory and comprehension, drowsiness, cardiovascular disease, tingling hands and feet, etc. .

3. Treatment:

Now for the treatment of polycystic kidney disease or in Western medicine therapy. Western medicine treatment of polycystic kidney disease, when patients with cystic when less than 4 cm, since not cause to affect renal function, generally do not take any treatment. When compared with patients with severe renal cysts, when Western medicine commonly used surgical way to relieve the patient's condition, such as puncture, cyst decortication, and the like. Wait until progression of the disease in patients with renal failure when the patient will need dialysis or a kidney transplant.

Relatively speaking Western medicine, Chinese medicine treatment of polycystic kidney disease is an advantage, because Western medicine narrow cyst surgery patients will also cause great physical trauma, but Chinese medicine are able to reach not harm the patient's body can shrink the cyst purposes.