Why Do PKD Patients Need To Drink Less Alcohol

2014-11-20 03:49

Wine culture in China is broad and profound, but alcohol is bad for body health. Long time of drinking alcohol will cause damages on many body oranges, especially for PKD patients. They should avoid alcohol.

1. Why do PKD patients should drink less alcohol or even avoid it?

During the period of treatment and recovery in PKD, diet is particularly important. Unhealthy diet is more likely to worsen medical conditions and delay the time of recovery. PKD and kidney cyst patients need a favorable surrounding environment in the body for their recovery.

2. Drinking alcohol has the following disadvantages for PKD patients:

Drinking alcohol will elevate blood pressure

Excessive alcohol intake will make the bound of water in cells loss

Serum creatinine level will rise due to creatine hypermetabolism

When ethyl alcohol breaks down, it can generate acidic substances, thus leading to metabolic acidosis. People will experience nausea, poor appetite, headache and deprementia.

If you drink alcohol for a long time, it will cause anemia, platelet function disorder and various bleeding.

Alcohol will also lead to gastrointestinal malabsorption and deficient nutrients. In this condition, the utilization ability of your body to vitamin B1 and vitamin B2 and folic acid will decrease. What’s worse, it will discharge more vitamin B6.

Alcohol will lead to hyperlipidaemia and atherosclerosis.

Alcohol is bad for body health and the recovery of PKD. This is because alcohol has powerful stimulating effect on kidneys, which will speed up the secretion of cystic fluid so as to aggravate the growth of kidney cysts. Therefore, PKD patients should drink less alcohol and had better quit alcohol.

Alcohol will damage kidneys, affect the nitrogen balance, increase the break down of protein, increase the urea nitrogen amount in blood urine so as to put a burden on kidneys. Therefore, PKD patients should drink less alcohol.

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