Is Alcohol Good for Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

2014-03-22 08:57

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease with several fluid-filled cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will cause kidney damage to patients. So patients need to pay attention to what they eat and drink in their daily life, which can also cause enlargement of kidney cysts. Then is alcohol good for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) patients?

As we know, for kidney disease patients, they are often recommended to give up smoking and drinking alcohol when they suffer from severe kidney damage, so PKD patients also need to avoid alcohol in their daily life. Here are some bad effects of drinking alcohol for PKD patients.

1. Cause enlargement of kidney cysts

Alcohol can stimulate the polycystic protein activity, which can cause the pouch liquid secreted to fast, thus will cause the increase and enlargement of kidney cysts. When the kidney cyst is enlarged into a certain size, it will cause cyst rupture. And the cyst rupture will cause infections to kidneys, which will cause further damage to kidneys.

2. Increase the kidney burden

Alcohol can affect the balance of nitrogen in body, which will increase the consumption of protein in body. And it will increase the kidney burden and damage kidneys.

3. Cause metabolic acidosis

The consumption of alcohol in body will excrete some acidic material, which will cause metabolic acidosis. Metabolic acidosis is a serious condition for people, and it may ever cause death for people.

4. Cause other diseases

Drinking too much alcohol can also caused elevated blood pressure, atherosclerosis, platelet hardening, etc, all these will also be harmful for PKD patients, because these diseases are bad for PKD patients.

From above we can know the bad effects of drinking alcohol for PKD patients, so they need to stop drinking alcohol once they get PKD.

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