What Food Should PKD Patients Stay Away From

2014-09-26 05:25

What kind of food should PKD patients stay away from? A scientific diet helps to bring PKD under control and delay dialysis successfully, so if you are a PKD patient or your family is suffering this illness, this article will be helpful. Well, what should should PKD patients stay away from on earth?

First of all, we need to understand how PKD is affected by daily diet.

PKD is a genetic kidney disorder which can cause cyst formation in kidney. For people who are living with Polycystic Kidney Disease, their kidneys are usually full of big and small kidney cysts. These cysts enlarge over time with the increase of fluid inside the cyst. Under such a condition, kidney tissues are injured easily. Improper diet not only increases kidney burden and worsen kidney function, but also stimulate kidney cysts to enlarge quickly, which is very harmful for kidney. Therefore, making a kidney-friendly diet is very important for PKD patients.

Second, what foods should PKD patients stay away from?

If you are a PKD patients, to protect residual kidney function, you need to stay away from:

* Salted foods

Slat is the most excellent source of sodium in our daily diet. It plays an important role for a healthy body, but when our kidneys are damaged by PKD, they can not excess sodium out of the body, which can lead to elevation of blood pressure as well as fluid retention. Therefore, staying away from salted foods like pickles, bacon and some pizza.

* Foods rich in potassium

As a PKD patient, you must be careful about high potassium foods. If your potassium level in blood is in normal range, you can eat some high potassium foods like banana, asparagus, butter beans, spinach, greens and brussels sprouts to control your blood pressure. However, if lab tests show high level of potassium in blood, please stay away from these high potassium foods.

* High phosphorus foods

Foods high in phosphorus are also a taboo if you are a PKD patients, because high phosphorus intake will lead to low calcium level in blood, which increase your risk for renal bone problems like bone pain and bone fracture. Foods high in phosphorus include almonds, cheese, dried fruit, salmon, hard potatoes and peanut.

* No alcohol

It is common to see people drink alcohol during daily diet. However, medicals studies report some substances in the alcohol can stimulate kidney cyst and make them enlarge quickly. Therefore, no alcohol is suggested in daily diet if you are living with PKD.

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