Is Fish Oil Good for PKD Patients

2014-07-27 02:10

Is fish oil good for PKD patients? Nowadays, more and more people prefer to take fish oil to improve their health condition, which has been improved to have great improvements on their health. Then PKD patients will wonder whether they can take fish oil or not. In this article, we will help answer this question, and we hope this will be helpful for all the PKD patients.

Fish oil is high in unsaturated fatty acid, so most function of the fish oil is worked by the unsaturatted faty acid. And it has many benefits for PKD patients to take.

1. Regulate the blood fat

Th e fish oil contains EPA and DHA, which can help lower the levels of cholesterol and triglyceride, and this can also help control the concentration of blood lipid. All these can help prevent the cardiovascular disease, which will be good for PKD patients to have a good prognosis.

2. Clean up the blood clots

The EPA in fish oil can also help prevent the deposition of fat in blood vessels, which can help prvent the formation of thrombus, and this can help prvent stroke in PKD patients. As we know, when PKD develops into kidney failure, patients will suffer from severe blood problem, so taking fish oil can help improve the blood circulation.

3. Regulate the immune system

Since fish oil is high in EPA and DHA, and they can also help improve the immune system, which will be helpful for PKD patients. For PKD patients, they often have poor immunity, which can cause the infections attack the kidneys and cause severe kidney damage. Once the imune system is improved, it can help prevent the infections to kidneys and protect the kidneys.

Above are the common benefits of fish oil for PKD patients, and there are also some other benefits of taking fish oil. However, since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so PKD patients need to take fish oil depending on their own illnss condition. If you still have any questions after reading, you can ask the online doctor, and they will answer you freely.

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