Diet for Kidney Dysfunction Patients in PKD

2014-05-29 03:48

What are the diet for kidney dysfunction patients in PKD? As we know, PKD is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys. And the enlargement of kidney cysts will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage, which will make people suffer from kidney dysfunction.

When PKD patients have kidney dysfunction, they will have a poor illness condition. In this condition, patients need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help make a reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. And this can also help make a good prognosis for PKD patients.

Here are some diet suggestions for PKD patients with kidney dysfunction.

1. Keep a reasonable protein intake

As we know, protein is a necessary nutrition for people, which can help strength the illness condition of patients. The kidney dysfunction can cause the symptom of protein in urine, so patients need to limit the protein intake, which can help reduce the kidney burden. Patients can take proper amount of high quality protein depending on their own illness condition, which reduce kidney burden and satisfy the needs of body.

2. Keep a light diet

For PKD patients, they also need to keep a light diet, especially for high blood pressure and swelling patients. They need to limit the salt and fluid intake, which can help relieve the symptoms and control the illness condition.

3. Avoid the foods high in potassium

Kidney dysfunction can cause the electrolyte imbalance, which can cause the high potassium level in blood, and the high potassium level in blood will be harmful for the illness condition. So patients need to avoid the high potassium foods in their daily diet, such as banana, orange, potato, mushrooms, nuts, etc.

4. Avoid the foods high in purine

For kidney dysfunction patients, they also need to avoid the high purine foods, such as sea foods, spinach, mushrooms, and beer etc.

Above are the diet suggestions for PKD patients who are suffering from kidney dysfunction, which will be helpful for their illness condition. If you still have some questions, or you want to get a specific diet plan for your illness condition, you can send e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, we will answer you as soon as possible.

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