What to Do with Polycystic Kidney Disease 17 % Function

2014-04-21 03:02

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) means there are a lot of fluid-filled cysts in your kidneys. The growth of cysts can lead to kidney failure. When your kidney function declines to 17 %, what to do? Kidney function 17% indicates that your PKD is in the fourth stage, if you can not control your state of illness, it will quickly develops to end stage, when you have to do dialysis. In stage 4, you should protect yourself from the following aspects.

Prevent kidney cyst rupture

The cysts keep growing. In stage 4, the cysts may be so big that it is easy to rupture under some external cause, such as injure, fall, collide, etc. Once kidney cysts burst, you should go to hospital as early as possible in case of kidney infection and acute kidney failure.

Follow a renal-friendly diet

Renal-friendly diet can help improve your kidney function and prevent kidney damage. You should eat a low protein diet. Because proteolysis can produce many wastes, which may add workload on the kidneys. Besides, you should limit your intake of sodium, potassium, fluid and so on according to your medical condition.

Keep good mood

At any time, you should keep good mood. Good mood can help you improve immunity to fight with kidney disease. Sometimes people do not die of the disease, but their bad emotion. In the daily, listening to music, reading, doing some gentle exercise are all good for improve emotion.

Take aggressive treatment

Aggressive treatment plays an important role in helping you live a better life. In our hospital, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is often recommended, because it does not only help shrink kidney cysts, but also improve kidney function. The detailed information can be acquired with the help of online doctor.

PKD is not death sentence, if you can do the above, you can live like a normal person.

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