Is Black Pepper Good for Kidney Stone In PKD

2014-06-15 00:43

Is black pepper good for kidney stone in PKD? As we know, kidney stone is a common complication for PKD patients, which can be caused by many factors. For PKD patients, they need to have effective treatment when they have kidney stones, and they also need to keep a good diet to prevent the increase of the kidney stones. So patients need to know exactly what can eat and what cat eat in their daily life.

Kidney stone patients cant take black pepper in their daily diet.

Black pepper is a kind of spice, which is favored by people because of its good taste. However, For PKD patients who have kidney stones, they need to limit the intake of black pepper. Because black pepper contains a high amount of oxalate.

Oxalate is the main factor that can cause kidney stones. Oxalate is a simple molecule which can easily bind with calcium in the urine, which can easily cause kidney stones. So PKD patients need to limit the intake of black pepper in their daily life. In addition, there are also some other foods which are high in oxalate, such as spinach, parsley, celery, rhubarb, cranberries, peanut, soy, bran and chocolate. So PKD patients also need to limit the intake of these foods, or they need to firmly avoid these foods in their daily diet.

How to treat the kidney stones for PKD patients?

For PKD patients, if they don’t have severe swelling, they may need to take more water in their daily life, which can help increase the urine output, and this can help remove the small stones into urine. For the big stones, we often recommend them to take Chinese herbal medicine, which can help resolve the kidney stones into small size, then the small kidney stones can be removed into urine. And patients don’t need to have surgery to remove the big kidney stones.

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