Home Remedies for Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

2014-03-23 01:55

Polycystic Kidney Disease is an inherent kidney disease with fluid filled sacs in kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will cause kidney damage. So patients need to have effective treatment to shrink the kidney cysts and remedy the kidney damage. In addition, patients also need to pay attention in their daily life. Then what are the home remedies for PKD patients?

1. Reasonable and scientific diet

PKD patients need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. PKD patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, such as low and high quality protein diet, low salt diet, they also need to keep a certain diet which can help regulate their electrolyte balance.

2. Avoid strenuous exercise

PKD patients need to avoid strenuous exercises in their daily life, such as avoiding force bending and the exercise which will hit the waist, all these can cause cyst rupture for PKD patients. So patients need to take some light exercises such as waling, jogging, etc, all these can help improve the immune system.

3. Prevent cold and infection

Since infection in kidneys will cause further damage to kidneys, so PKD patients need to prevent cold and infections on their daily life. They should keep warm, and improve their immune system, all these will be helpful for PKD patients to have a good prognosis.

4. Keep a healthy lifestyle

PKD patients need to keep a healthy life style, so they need to avoid smoking and stop drinking alcohol, which are both helpful for PKD patients. Besides, they also need to have a good rest everyday, and don’t do some burden work.

5. Keep a positive and optimistic mind

PKD patients need to keep a positive and optimistic mind, which will be helpful for patients. They should be confident with their illness and a positive mind will also make a good prognosis for them.

Above are the home remedies for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) patients, which will be good for their illness condition. So patients need to pay attention to these suggestions, if you still have some questions, you can ask the doctor online, or leave a message below. We are always here to help you.

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