Can I Drink Alcohol With a 2.2*1.7 cm Kidney Cyst on My Right Kidney

2014-12-06 01:50

Question: I am 56 years old, and I was diagnosed to have a 2.2*1.7 cm kidney cyst on my right kidney, the doctor told me to avoid drinking alcohol. But alcohol is one of my love in my daily life, can you tell me whether I can drink alcohol with my kidney cyst? If not, why?

Answer: Kidney cyst is a common disease for people when they are older than 50 years old, and in most of cases, the kidney cyst will not cause damage to kidneys. For your father, his kidney cyst is not so big, so you don’t need to worry about it. But you need to avoid drinking alcohol in your daily life, because the alcohol especially white wines will speed up the secretion of cystic fluid and the kidney cyst will get enlarged quickly. Once the kidney cyst is larger than 4 cm, it will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. In that condition, you will suffer from some severe symptoms, such as back pain, urinary tract infection, fever, protein urine and blood urine, etc.

Besides, alcohol will also increase the kidney burden and cause kidney damage. Because alcohol can disturb the nitrogen balance and increase the metabolism of protein, which will increase the urea nitrogen level in blood, thus will worsen the illness condition.

Alcohol can also cause creatine hypermetabolism and increase the creatinine level in blood, this is also harmful for patients. In addition, the decomposition of alcohol will produce more acid materials in body, which can lead to metabolic acidosis, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, headache, etc.

From above, we can know that alcohol has no benefits for you, in turn, it will worsen the prognosis of your illness condition. So you should better give up drinking alcohol, and have early treatment, which can help make a good prognosis for you.

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