Can PKD Patients With 25% Kidney Function Eat Seafood

2015-04-16 03:53

Seafood has many advantages that can improve our body condition. Different seafood has different effect on your health. But can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients with 25% renal function eat seafood?

PKD is an inherited kidney disease. Various cysts will grow in one or both two kidneys. Besides, the cysts will become bigger and bigger with time going on. When they grow to a certain size, they will cause damages on kidneys. PKD will eventually progress to end stage renal disease (ESRD).

25% kidney function indicates that kidney disease has progressed to stage 4 and renal function has been damaged seriously. In this condition, internal environment of your body cannot be maintained by your kidneys. Kidney disease patients often have massive proteinuria, which causes less protein in the body. Can PKD patients eat more protein-rich foods to supplement protein that leaks into urine from their bodies.

The answer is no.

For people with PKD, uric acid level is usually high. In view of this, PKD patients need to limit the intake of purine, a great source of uric acid.

Seafood such as sea-fish, sea-cucumber and seaweed all contains rich purine. As we mentioned above, PKD patients need to avoid purine-rich food including seafood. In addition, polycystic kidneys cannot remove phosphorus completely, causing high phosphorus level in blood. Some seafood such as shrimp and crab are high in phosphorus, so patients with high levels of phosphorus in blood need to avoid these seafood.

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