Can PKD Patients Eat Garlic

2014-06-09 09:16

Can PKD patients eat garlic in their daily life? This is a common question for PKD patients. As we know, all the PKD patients need to take a kidney-friendly diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidneys.

Garlic is a kind of seasoning for people in their daily diet, which has the function of sterilization, so it is favored by many people. However, the garlic belongs to the excitant food, wich will be bad for PKD patients. Because it may stimulate the enlargement of kidney cysts, and this will worsen the illness condition of PKD patients.

In addition, there are also some other preventions for PKD patients that they should pay attention to in their daily life, which will be helpful for their illness condition.

1. Avoid the alcohol

PKD patients should avoid the alcohol, and they should give up of it. Because the alcohol will stimulate the the polycystic protein activity, which will increase the growth of kidney cysts for PKD patients. And this will worsen the illness condition and increase the progression of kidney failure.

2. Keep a low protein diet

PKD patients also need to keep a low protein diet. Because the too much protein intake will cause more wastes in body, which will increase the kidney burden and cause kidney damage. However, since the protein is a necessary nutrition for people, so patients need to take proper amount of protein in their daily diet. And the certain amount of protein intake for PKD patients should be depending on their own illness condition. In addition, patients should take the high quality protein, which will cause less wasts in body.

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