Is Drinking Water Bad If I Have Chronic Kidney Failure

2015-12-17 01:37

If I have chronic kidney failure, is drinking water bad? As for this question, there is no exact answer, and it depends on specific conditions of patients. The below are detailed explanation for you.

Water is necessary and good for our health and body. Drinking more water can promote kidney to produce more urine to remove wastes and toxins in body, which is beneficial for health. For patients with kidney failure, they also are suggested to have more water in daily life to help eliminate wastes from body. But for patients with kidney failure who have swelling or are on dialysis, water needs to be limited strictly in meals. Because there is retention of fluids in body, in this way, much water can aggravate this condition, causing more serious swelling or edema in body.

Many patients with kidney failure are told that drinking much water can be good for lowering high creatinine, which is also not right and needs to depends on patients’ disease condition.

A healthy diet and management of water can be helpful for treating kidney failure and alleviating symptoms. However, decline of kidney function is the key, and medical treatment for recovering kidney function is the best way to treat kidney failure. Chinese medicine is used to treat kidney failure by repairing kidney damage and recovering kidney function gradually by the time. In this way, kidney failure can be controlled from the root. Life expectancy and quality will get improved very well.

In conclusion, patients with chronic kidney failure should manage water according to their disease condition. And Chinese medicine is a good option for making patients with kidney failure better. Any question or more information, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctor anytime. Reply will be given very soon for you.

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