Kidney Failure Patients Should Avoid Alcohol

2016-01-04 08:28

Alcohol is very popular and common in our daily life. When we have a dinner or have a party, alcohol is usually a necessity. But much alcohol does harm to our health, also to kidney. For patients with kidney failure, they should avoid alcohol. Details are the below:

Our kidney is responsible for removing wastes or other harmful things from body, and alcohol is one that needs to be eliminated by kidney function. Much alcohol can affect kidney function. It can make kidney lose the function of maintaining the right amount of water fluids in body by drying out body.

In addition, blood pressure can be affected with alcohol. Alcohol can increase the risk of getting high blood pressure which can worsen kidney disease. And liver health can be affected, causing liver disease.

For patients with kidney cysts, alcohol is likely to contribute to growth of cysts. Therefore, patients with kidney failure should avoid alcohol in daily life. If you can not avoid completely, it is ok for you to drink one or two cups in few days, but never drink more. A good habit in daily life is helpful for treatment. Besides, diet should be managed well: low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium, low sodium, low fat and cholesterol. If you do not know which kind of food you can eat or not, welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctor anytime. We will reply you very soon in detail.

Apart from daily diet and habits, treatment is very important, and Chinese medicine treatment is a good option which can improve kidney and recover kidney function very well by repairing kidney damage, promoting blood circulation and dilating blood vessels, preventing inflammation, degrading fibrosis.

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