Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients Drink Coffee

2014-03-07 15:01

Can polycystic kidney disease patients drink coffee? This is a common question for all the PKD patients. Since kidney disease patients need to pay attention to their daily diet, so PKD patients also need to know exactly what to eat and drink, which can help reduce the kidney burden and slow down the progression of kidney failure.

Coffee is a common beverage among people, which is favored by many people with its delicious taste and its many health efficacies. However, for PKD patients, because the illness condition is different from case to case, so patients need to depending on their own condition to decide wether they can drink coffee or not. Here we recommend some benefits of drinking coffee, so patients can follow these tips to see whether they can drink coffee.

1. Diuretics

Coffee can be regarded as a natural diuretic, because the caffeine in coffee can help promote the kidney function and excrete excess sodium in body. Thus can help increase the urine output. In this aspect, PKD patients can drink coffee to help relieve their symptom of swelling. However, patients need to take proper amount of coffee in their daily life, because too much coffee intake will also be harmful for PKD patients.

2. Appetizer

PKD patients often have a poor appetite because the reduced kidney function, and this will make patients more fatigue than before because of lacking nutritions. Coffee also can be regarded as an appetizer, which can help improve the appetite, so PKD patient can drink proper coffee to increase their appetite. And a good appetite can make patients supply enough nutrition and help prevent the further damage to kidneys.

Therefore, we can see drinking coffee have some benefits for PKD patients, but this doesn’t mean they can drink coffee safely. Because there are also some restrictions for patients to drink coffee.

For patients who have a low calcium level in blood, they need to avoid drinking coffee, because caffeine has some relation to the decreased calcium and it may increase the lack of calcium in blood. Besides, caffeine can also affect the sleep quality for some people, so PKD patients with sleep problems need to avoid drinking coffee.

Therefore, whether PKD patients can drink coffee is all depending on their own illness condition, they can ask the advice of their doctors if they want to drink coffee. Besides, if PKD patients can drink coffee, they also need to take proper amount, because too much intake will also cause damage to kidneys.

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