Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet Guidelines

2014-08-18 06:21

For polycystic kidney disease patients, they need to follow a well planed diet guidelines, which can help prevent the increase of kidney cysts and protect their kidney function. Then what diet guidelines that they should follow? In this article, we will help you answer this question, and we hope this will be helpful for all the PKD patients.

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic kidney disease. Patients were born with the polycystic gene in their kidneys, and there are numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, which will be increased and get enlarged over time. The enlargement of kidney cysts will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and finally cause kidney failure. A well planed diet will be helpful for the PKD patients.

Here are the diet guidelines for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients.

1. Avoid the spicy foods

For PKD patients, they need to avoid the spicy foods and keep a light diet. Since the spicy foods will increase the enlargement of kidney cysts, which will worsen the illness condition.

2. Stop drinking and smoking

PKD patients also need to stop drinking and smoking, which can also help prevent the enlargement of kidney cysts.

3. Keep a low protein diet

When the enlargement of kidney cysts caused kidney damage, PKD patients may need to keep a low protein diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidney function.

4. Limit the salt intake

Since high blood pressure is a common symptom for PKD patients, so patients also need to limit the salt intake, which can help prevent the increase of blood pressure. In addition, if PKD patients have swelling in body, they also need to limit the fluid intake.

5. Limit the high potassium and high phosphorus foods

For PKD patients, they also need to limit the high potassium and high phosphorus foods, because they often have the high potassium and high phosphorus levels in blood when their kidneys are damage, which will be harmful for their condition.

6. Take more fresh fruits and vegetables

PKD patients need to take more fresh fruits and vegetables depending on their own illness condition, which can help improve the immune system and prevent the infections to kidneys. All these can help protect the kidney function.

Above are the diet guidelines for all the PKD patients. If you still have any questions, or you want to get a specific recipe depending on your own condition, you can send e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, we will answer you within 24 hours.

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