How Much Salt Can I Take With Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-06-07 01:54

Salt is an important seasoning in our daily diet, which can help increase the appetite for people. However, for kidney disease patients, they need to take proper amount of salt depending on their own illness condition. For PKD patients, they also need to limit the salt intake, which will be helpful for their illness condition. Then how much salt can people take with polycystic kidney disease (PKD)?

When should PKD patients need to limit the salt intake?

As we know, PKD is a genetic kidney disease, and there are numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, which can be increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and improve the kidney function.

As we know, the healthy kidneys have the function of balancing the electrolyte in blood. When the kidneys are damaged by the enlargement of kidney cysts, the kidneys will fail to work well, which will cause the electrolyte imbalance in blood, such as high potassium level, high phosphorus level and high sodium level, etc. All these will affect the whole health of body.

When there is a high sodium level in blood, it will cause swelling, and it can also elevate the blood pressure for people. In this condition, PKD patients need to limit the sodium intake. Since salt is high in sodium, so patients need to limit the salt intake as well.

How much protein should I take with PKD?

For PKD patients, they take salt should depending on their own illness condition. When they have no kidney damage and they don’t have some severe symptoms, they may don’t need to limit the salt intake.

However, when the kidneys are damaged, and patients have some severe symptoms such as high blood pressure and swelling, they may need to limit the salt intake. Depending the order of severity of illness condition, the proper amount of salt intake for PKD patients may also be different.

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