How does Polycystic Kidney Disease cause Kidney Failure

Polycystic kidney is mainly characterized by bilateral kidneys having countless ranging liquid cysts whose diameter is from several millimeters to several centimeters. These cysts looking like a bunch of grapes become bloody fluid, when they are infected or injured. Along with the growth of this disease, cysts can continue to increase faster and become bigger. If the patient doesn’t find his disease or doesn’t get an effective treatment in the early stage, the increscent cysts will press his nephridial tissue with a result of obstruction in local kidney. With the increase of …, polycystic kidney disease will develop into kidney failure over time.
How to prevent polycystic kidney disease causing kidney failure?
When the patient’s polycystic kidney disease develops into chronic renal failure (CRF), he must know the three-level preventions very well and catch the treating opportunity to recovery his renal function. Taking an effective treatment as soon as possible is the only hope of recovery.
Primary prevention: treating the kidney diseases timely and effectively is to (means preventing ) prevent CRF.
Secondary prevention: treating the early-stage kidney disease timely is to prevent the occurrence of kidney failure.
Tertiary prevention: treating the early-stage kidney failure timely is to prevent the occurrence of kidney disease complications and to enhance the patient’s quality of life.
How to treat kidney failure caused by polycystic kidney disease?
In the clinical, many patients’ polycystic kidney disease develops into kidney failure because of the illness aggravating. At present, there are three methods for kidney failure caused by polycystic kidney disease：
1、 Western treatment: western treatment usually uses oral medicine and dialysis to control the growth of the disease. This treatment can work quickly, but it may cause many complications.
2、 Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment: treatment of traditional Chinese medicine has a considerable effect for the patients with chronic renal failure, and it can improve patients’ clinical symptoms. However this treatment needs long time and effect slowly.
3、 Treatment combining WM and TCM: in the clinical, this treatment develops a new style, and it isn’t affected by digestive system and circulating system. So it has an advantage of obvious and lasting efficacy.
In summary: having polycystic kidney disease is not terrible, unless lack of attention to it. If you can treat it early, you can still have a good health.