Is Jasmine Tea Good for PKD Patients

2015-01-29 06:22

Is jasmine tea good for PKD patients? PKD, polycystic kidney disease, is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and the PKD will finally develop into end stage kidney failure without effective treatment. When patients suffer from PKD, they need to have early treatment, and they also need to pay attention to their daily eat and drinks, which will be beneficial for their illness condition. So patients will wonder whether they can take jasmine tea with their disease.

In fact, there are some benefits of taking jasmine tea for PKD patients.

1. Increase urine output

Taking jasmine tea can help increase the urine output, which can help remove the toxins and wastes out into urine. And this can help prevent urinary tract infections (UTI), a common complication in PKD.

2. Lower high blood pressure

As we know, high blood pressure is one of the most common symptoms in PKD, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further kidney damage. Taking jasmine tea can help lower high blood pressure, which can be beneficial for PKD patients in protecting their kidneys.

3. Anti-inflammations

Jasmine tea also has the function of preventing inflammations and infections in body, which can help protect their kidneys.

4. Protect heart

With the development of PKD, patients will be at high risk of getting cardiovascular diseases, which can be life-threatening for them. Taking jasmine tea can help protect the heart function, so it can prevent the cardiovascular disease, which will be good for them.

5. Relieve pains

With the enlargement of kidney cysts, patients can have back pain, side pain or abdominal pain. Taking jasmine tea can help relieve the pains in some degree, which will be helpful for PKD patients.

Above are the benefits of taking jasmine tea for PKD patients. However, since the specific illness condition will be different from case to case, so PKD patients need to take jasmine tea depending on their own illness condition.

Precaution:

1. For PKD patients, if they have severe swelling and high blood pressure, they may need to limit the jasmine intake. Because too much fluid intake will worsen their symptoms.

2. Prevent strong tea

Since too much strong tea intake will increase kidney burden and cause further kidney damage. So PKD patients need to prevent the strong jasmine tea intake.

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