The Best Treatment Time and Approach for PKD in Children

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a hereditary disease that is characterized by the growth of many cysts in the kidneys. With the child growing, cysts forming in the kidney will profoundly enlarge the kidney, resulting in reduced kidney function and finally giving rise to kidney failure.
At the early stage of PKD in child, there are no obvious symptoms so that PKD in child can not be found timely so that child with PKD does not receive proper treatment as soon as possible as a result of which, child with PKD has severe symptoms when diagnosed with the disease. Parents who have PKD should pay more attention to children in order to earlier find the sign of PKD in children to receive timely treatment for them and maintain children growing and developing as normally as possible.
The early symptoms of PKD in children:
High blood pressure
Hematuria (blood urine)
Back pain
Urinary tract infections
Delayed development
Bruise easily
Abnormal heart valves
If your child has signs mentioned above, you should take him/ her to go to see a doctor for a test. With child growing, cysts are growing enough as a result of which, cysts can profoundly enlarged the kidney replacing the normal kidney structure and damaging the kidney function. Finally, it is likely to develop into kidney failure.
Parents should take the right time to treat PKD in children. It is the best time for child with PKD to receive treatment at the early stage of PKD. The earlier child with PKD receives treatment, the better the prognosis is.
Stem Cell Transplant is recommended to treat Childhood PKD. Stem cell is a class of unspecialized cells which have the ability to self-renew and differentiate any type of cells. After transplanted into body, stem cells move to damaged part of kidney to self-renew or differentiate tissue-cells or organ-cells to repair or replace the worn and damaged cells so as to achieve the goal of treating disease. Compared with conventional therapies, stem cells have the advantage of treating Childhood PKD with the features of being simple, painless, and quick. Above all, Stem Cell Transplant has no side effects on their growth and development in the future. As parents, what they want is to choose a safe and effective therapy to treat the condition well and keep child growing and developing as normally as possible. In many cases, Stem Cell Transplant has great curative effects on Childhood PKD so that children with PKD can live a better life in future.
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