Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients Should Avoid Cold

2014-10-31 10:13

Why polycystic kidney disease patients should avoid cold? Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic and progressive kidney disease with multiply fluid-filled cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will finally develop into kidney failure. So PKD patients need to have effective treatment as early as possible to help slow down the progression, and they also need to take care in their daily life, which will be good for their illness condition.

Why polycystic kidney disease patients should avoid cold?

For PKD patients, there are numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, which will eventually cause kidney damage. In this condition, PKD patients can suffer from poor immune system, and patients will easily suffer from cold or infections, which will be very dangerous for PKD patients. Because the cold, especially cold relapse will worsen the illness condition of PKD patients, which will make a bad prognosis for them. So PKD patients need to have effective treatment to prevent cold.

Besides, there are also some other factors that PKD patients should avoid in their daily diet, which can help improve the illness condition of patients.

1. Keep a well planed diet

Diet plays an important role in PKD patients, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidneys. The recommend diet include low protein diet, low salt intake, limit the potassium and phosphorus intake, etc. All these will be good for PKD patients.

2. Prevent an injury

As we know, the kidney cysts will get enlarged over time, and it will easily get ruptured with large size. So patients need to prevent possible injuries, which can help prevent kidney cyst burst. And this can help prevent possible infections in abdomen caused by cyst rupture.

3. Control the blood pressure

For PKD patients, high blood pressure is a common symptom, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further damage to kidneys. So patients need to have effective treatment to control the blood pressure, which can help protect kidney function.

Above are some suggestions for PKD patients to take care in their daily life, which will be good for their illness condition. In addition, they also need to have effective treatment to shrink the kidney cysts and improve the kidney function. If you want to get more information about the natural treatment for PKD patients, you can consult the online doctor, or you can also send e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

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