How to Care About Your Kidneys with PKD

2014-04-02 08:13

How to care about your kidneys with PKD? If you would like to know the answer, please go on reading.

Shrink kidney cysts

PKD is characterized by cysts in the kidneys. These kidney cysts keep growing, which does not only ring about many symptoms, such as high blood pressure, hematuria, back pain, etc, but also damage your kidney structure so as to lower your kidney function. Therefore, you should try to shrink kidney cysts first.

The conventional treatment is to control these symptoms rather than shrink the cysts. Surgery is also a treatment for PKD patients to drain kidney cysts, it aims at removing certain big cysts on the surface of the kidneys in the early stage of PKD. But when your disease develops to end stage or the cysts are inside kidneys, surgery is helpless.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy may be a good choice, because it inhibits the growth of cysts as well as improve kidney function.

Follow a renal-friendly diet

Diet is the direct source of wastes. Because the damaged kidneys can not filter the wastes from the blood, they will build up in your body, which over time can cause further damage to your kidneys and other organs. Therefore, it is necessary for to follow a renal-friendly diet.

Protein is essential for your health, but too much will increase the burden on the kidneys. High quality protein are almost made up of essential amino acid, which can be absorbed by your body, so it is preferred when choosing protein. Egg white, lean meat, fish, and so on are belong to such protein.

Besides, you should limit your intake of sodium, which helps control blood pressure. In the early stage of PKD, plenty of water intake reduces the risk of urinary tract infection and some researches prove that it also helps restrain cyst growth. The detailed information you can find in healthy diet guideline for PKD patients.

Of course, the above two aspects are not enough, you should also pay attention to other aspects, such as nursing care, exercise, emotion, living habit, etc. Space limited, we do not explain them one by one. For more information, please contact online doctor. Our online service is free.

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