Lose Weight Will Help My Kidney for PKD or Other Kidney Disease

2015-09-10 08:42

Proper weight is good for our health. If you are overweight or obese, your health can be affected potentially and gradually, including your kidney. Hence, it is suggested for patients with PKD to lose weight and avoid obesity in daily life. Here we will explain bad effects of overweight or obesity, and give suggestions for how to lose weight for patients with kidney disease and PKD.

See the bad effects of overweight and obesity:

High risk of high blood pressure and high blood fat

Abnormal of metabolism

Obesity can lead to coronary heart disease and contribute to death for patients with coronary heart disease.

What is worse, obesity has much to do with chronic kidney disease, and it is proved that controlling obesity is the key to decline of chronic kidney disease and death in daily life.

The below are chronic kidney disease people with obesity have higher risk of getting:

Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, colorectal cancer, kidney disease, high blood pressure and bone disease.

Therefore, we can see that overweight or obesity is very harmful for patients with PKD and other kidney disease. Disease condition may deteriorate gradually, because obesity can affect kidney function and damage kidney indirectly by causing the above disease.

However, if patients are much underweight, it is also very bad, which can cause anemia, poor immunity, bone disease, depression, etc.

Patients with PKD and other kidney disease can lose weight by following the points:

1. take regular exercise in daily life. And swimming, running can be good options. But which is fit for you depends on your specific disease conditions. You can consult your doctor, or leave a message for us or contact our online doctors.

2. well planned daily diet. You should have three meals regularly everyday, and avoid missing it. You had better eat food which is low fat, low cholesterol, low sugar. It is also know that PKD patients should follow principles: low phosphorus, low potassium, low protein, low salt diet. Eating vitamins like vegetables and fruits can be beneficial .

3. good habits and lifestyle. Patients should avoid staying up, smoking, drinking in life.

Losing weight needs patients to persevere with the above suggestions in the long term. If you want to lose weight effectively in short time, just forget it. More information or any doubt, welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctors anytime. Reply will be given very fast in detail.

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