Is Multivitamin Good for PKD Patients

2015-05-05 02:05

Is multivitamin good for PKD patients? This is an e-mail we received from our mail box, pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. This should be a common question for PKD patients, since most of the patients would like to take the multivitamins to help guarantee a balanced vitamin supply. Then some PKD patients will wonder whether it is good to take multivitamin with their disease.

Why people take multivitamin?

As we know, a healthy eating remains the best source of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. For these people, they don’t need to take the multivitamins. But for people who don’t eat the whole food group or they cant eat enough variety of foods in their daily diet, they are recommended to take the multivitamins to build up their body health.

For PKD patients, with the development of their disease, they will have some severe symptoms such as poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anemia and fatigue. So the cannot take enough nutrition from their diet. For these patients, they need to take multivitamin to help boost their health.

However, for PKD patients, if their kidneys cant work well with the low kidney function, they can also get the electrolyte imbalance, then patients will have high potassium or high phosphorus level in blood. For these patients, some vitamins will be not suitable for them.

Then which vitamins should avoid for PKD patients?

The fat soluble vitamins, such as vitamin A, D, E and K, should be limited for PKD patients, because these vitamins are more likely to build up in body and increase the kidney burden, which will cause further kidney damage for PKD patients.

Vitamin D is also a special vitamin that should pay attention, and the doctor will give the vitamin D to PKD patients based on blood tests that measure calcium, phosphorus and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. And the vitamins D can help strengthen the bones for patients.

In addition, patients also need to take proper amount of vitamin C, because too much vitamin C intake will cause the build up of oxalate, which can deposit in the bones and soft tissues for PKD patients.

Therefore, taking the multivitamins can be beneficial for PKD patients, but they need to take it depending on their own illness condition, which can help protect their kidneys and slow down their progression. If still have any questions after reading, or you want to get more details of the treatment for PKD patients, you can leave a message below, or you can also consult online doctor directly. We will do our best to help you.

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