Self-Care for Polycystic Kidney Disease

2015-10-12 06:03

It is very important for patients with PKD to focus on self-care in life. And following doctors’ advice is necessary. Now please the below which you should do for self-care:

1. medicines

PKD patients need to take medicines to help alleviate some symptoms like pain, high blood pressure. However, they can not take any on their own, and should consult doctors at first. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines must be avoided in life, because it can do bad to kidney function. It is known that medicines also get removed from body by kidney filtering blood, thus medicines doing harm to kidney should be prohibited.

2. lifestyle

Taking regular exercise is good for PKD patients. Avoiding overweight and obesity is also necessary for them. Bad habits like smoking, drinking and stayup should be prevented. Otherwise, disease condition can be aggravated.

3. diet

a healthy diet is needed, too. Declining fat, cholesterol, caffeine is good for patients with PKD. In addition, low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium, low salt or sodium. These should be abided by in daily meals.

4. crashes

PKD patients, especially with large kidney cysts, should avoid crashes from outside, because if kidney place gets crashed, large kidney cyst can happen to rupture. In this case, strong pain will occur on patients, and infection or blood in urine may also appear.

Patients with PKD need to pay high attention to slowing down disease and prevent kidney failure. According to statistics, more than 50% patients with PKD can have kidney failure in the end. Therefore, shrinking kidney cysts is very necessary, and Chinese medicine can be a good option by inhibiting secreting cyst fluids and increasing permeability of cyst wall. What is more, kidney function gets improved well, so kidney failure will be prevented finally. More information or any question, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctors anytime.

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