How long can you live with bilateral polycystic kidney disease?

Bilateral polycystic kidney disease is a type of renal cyst, especially for adults. If you suffer from bilateral polycystic kidney disease, you will not feel anything when the disease is not occurring, just like a normal person. But once the disease occurs, kidney function will slowly fail, and your life will decline little by little, eventually leading to kidney damage. So how long can a person with bilateral polycystic kidney disease live? Let me introduce it to you below.

1. The survival time of polycystic kidney disease is generally affected to varying degrees by the following factors.

1. Severity of the disease

1. The early or late time of onset. Generally, polycystic kidney disease occurs in middle age, that is, after the age of 30. The earlier the onset, the more severe the clinical symptoms, and the later the onset, the milder the clinical symptoms. Males are generally more severely affected than females.

2. Adult polycystic kidney disease has multiple cysts since birth, but has not caused the disease and has no specific clinical manifestations, so generally no treatment is required. After polycystic kidney disease patients develop corresponding symptoms, it usually takes about 10 years for them to develop renal failure, and there are also large differences among different individuals.

2. Choice of treatment timing and treatment method

Early detection of polycystic kidney disease and the adoption of appropriate treatment measures, as well as active diet and the development of good living habits, can alleviate the progression of the disease to a certain extent. Once the cyst grows too large, it will increase the difficulty of treatment and miss the best time for treatment. In addition, from the perspective of treatment methods, surgical treatment cannot completely cure polycystic kidney disease. It not only causes physical and mental trauma to patients, but also causes recurrence of the disease. About six months to a year after surgery, many patients' symptoms recur, and they gradually become more severe than in the past. This method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause.

Therefore, it is recommended that patients adopt a combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment. While carrying out Western medical treatment, Chinese medicine plays a key role in treatment and fundamentally inhibits the growth of kidney cysts. On the one hand, the secretion of cystic fluid is controlled to control the growth of the cyst; on the other hand, the permeability of blood circulation on the surface of the cyst is increased through drugs to absorb the cystic fluid, reduce the cyst, and excrete it from the body through metabolism.

3. Personal eating habits. Adhere to a low-salt diet, a balanced diet, and a light and scientific diet. Generally, cysts develop slowly and the onset period is longer. Unreasonable eating habits, such as overeating, eating too much meat and fish, eating too many irritating foods and other spicy and irritating foods, will aggravate the condition to varying degrees.

How long can people with polycystic kidney disease live? It depends on many related factors. In short, polycystic kidney disease should be given enough attention, and efforts should be made to achieve early detection and early treatment. There is more room for treatment in the early stages, and the difficulty of treatment is relatively low. In addition, you must have a good attitude, develop good eating and living habits, and actively cooperate with treatment, so that you can effectively prolong your life.