Are Sports Dangerous to My Kidneys

2015-09-15 01:47

Are sports dangerous to my kidneys? For patients with PKD, kidney cyst can grow and enlarge gradually, when it is large enough, rupture can happen easily with outside crashes. Hence, it is very important for PKD patients to protect kidney cyst from rupturing in daily life. We all love sports which can exercise our body and give us fun, then can patients with PKD do sport?

To begin with, PKD patients can do sport in life, which is suggested in clinic to help improve body condition. Generally speaking, patients with PKD should avoid sports that can crash lower back or kidney place, such as football, basketball, rugby, hockey, kickboxing. Besides, long term biking can also do harm to patients with PKD, for instance, cross city biking, and blood in urine can be resulted in.

What is more, if kidney cyst is more than 4 cm, which is very large, PKD patients need to avoid that strong sports, and do some light and gentle ones like jogging, walking in daily life.

In a word, patients with PKD can do some sports, but they need to learn protect kidney places by tying pads and avoid ones that can crash kidney and lower back. Your doctors’advice should also be taken into consideration carefully. Taking care of kidney cyst in daily life is a necessity to help treat PKD patients well, and they need to take notice of this very much. More information, or any question, welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctors anytime. Reply will be given for you in detail very fast.

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