What is the life expectancy for someone with polycystic kidney disease?

by Rahul Kumar Health and Medical

The average life expectancy of a person suffering from polycystic kidney disease ranges from 53 to 70 years, depending on the conditions of your kidneys, and what type of diet you're taking in your everyday life. 

According to doctors, there's not any permanent cure for preventing polycystic kidney disease, although there are some medicines that can slow down the effect of polycystic kidney disease which can gradually impair your kidneys' functioning.  But, Ayurvedic practitioners strongly condemned the administration of allopathic medicines, such as antibiotics, painkillers, and aspirin which can bring some serious health ailments and can make your kidneys weak. 

Ayurvedic practitioners believe that your diet plays a crucial role in determining your mental and physical health. Ayurveda has placed a special emphasis which plays a crucial role in keeping your kidneys healthy which is essential for the optimal functioning of your body. 

Talking about polycystic kidney disease in Ayurveda, then Ayurveda has a different take on that. Ayurveda says that whatever we eat is looked up as an offering to your agni ( fire) which controls your metabolism, digestion, and hormones linked to your appetite.  

You can either strengthen your kidneys by eating a well-balanced foods or can weaken your kidneys by inducing virudha ahaar in our diet which includes processed or canned foods or foods which are too oily or spicy can harm our kidneys’ filtering unit. 

Ayurvedic Treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease 

Before jumping onto the solution let’s take a closure look at polycystic kidney disease and it’s symptoms that come along with it. 

 

What is polycystic kidney disease?

 

Polycystic kidney disease is a serious renal ailment which occur due to a genetic malfunction. This ailment develop the cluster of round sacs of fluid inside the kidneys which gradually grow in size and can also impair your kidneys’ functioning. Having more than one cysts inside your kidneys can also infect other organs nearer to your infected kidneys. 

 

What are the symptoms of polycystic kidney disease?

 

Polycystic kidney disease is a chronic kidney ailment which is hard to get noticed during the initial stages, and only comes up when the problem gets severe with time and are hard to get noticed with oral medications. Here we’ve listed some symptoms that you may experince in PKD which include-

 

High blood pressure

●      Headaches

●      Kidney stones

●      kidney failure

●      A feeling of fullness in your abdomen

●      Increased side of your abdomen due to enlarged kidneys

●      Urinary tract infections

●      Blood in urine

●      Nausea and feeling of throwing up 

 

When to see a doctor?

 

If you constantly feel the above mentioned symptoms in your health then it’s important to consult the doctor so that you can prevent the budding threat in time. 

 

What are the causes of polycystic kidney disease?

 

The causes of PKD is an inherited genetic malfuction which produce round sacs of fluid inside your kidneys. This problem passes from one generation to another and can be life-threatening.

 

Polycystic kidney disease are of two types which are-

 

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)

 

A person having ADPKD often feels some symptoms between the ages of 30 and 40. Earlier ADPKD was mostly reported in adults, but now children are also developing this disorder. In ADPK, one parent carrier is required to pass this ailment to the next generation. 

 

Auto recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD)

 

Auto recessive polycystic kidney disease mostly appears after some time of birth. A person suffering from ARPKD may not have any visible signs in childhood or during adolescence. In (ARPKD) both parents are required to have abnormal genes to pass this ailment to the next generation.

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