Can PKD Patients Eat Peppers

2014-11-28 17:32

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients should avoid spicy foods, but peppers contain many nutrients, including vitamin C, vitamin K. It belongs to spicy foods. Can PKD patients eat this spicy foods?

Peppers contain vitamin and microelement with antioxidant. This helps boost your energy and alleviate pressure and fatigue.

Pepper has function of stimulating salivary secretion. At this condition, it can improve your appetite, boost your digestion, promote bowel movement to prevent constipation. People will feel quick heartbeat and expanded blood vessels of skin after you eat spicy pepper. Therefore, generally, PKD patients are not recommended to eat peppers. We also recommend some dietary suggestion for people with PKD:

1. Avoid foods with rich oxalate

PKD patients should avoid foods with rich oxalate including beans, beets, celery, chocolate, grape, green pepper, caraway, spinach, strawberries. In addition, they also need to avoid alcohol, caffeine, tea, chocolate, dried figs, lamb, stone fruit, black tea and poppy seeds, etc.

2. Limit the intake of vitamin C

The limitation of vitamin C helps prevent the aggravation of kidney stone.

3. Control the intake of calcium and consume moderate protein.

4. Eat less sodium

5. Do not eat too much animal organs

With PKD, diet is certainly important, but treatment is the most important. Our hospital recommend systematic Chinese medicine treatment. The active ingredients can come to the kidney lesions directly with the help of osmosis device. This therapy has functions of inhibiting epithelial cells from secreting cystic fluid, increasing the permeability of cystic walls and blocking the fluid supply of cysts. With high permeability of sac walls, more sac fluid will be removed from the body through blood circulation but do not have any supply. Hence, patients will have a recovery.

Diet and treatment for PKD should be combined together. If you have any doubt, you can leave us a message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com or consult the online expert directly.

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