How do You Care for Someone with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-03-11 09:10

How do you care for someone with polycystic kidney disease (PKD)? This is a common question for people who have PKD, or the members in a family who have PKD. Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic kidney disease with numerous cysts occurred in kidneys, and patients with PKD need to pay attention to their daily care, which can help prevent the enlargement of kidney cysts and further damage to kidneys. Here we will introduce some nursing cares for PKD patients, and we hope this will help more and more patients.

1. Diet care

Since a kidney-friendly diet plays an important role in polycystic kidney disease (PKD) patients, so they need to pay attention to their daily diet. They should keep a low protein, low salt diet and limit their daily fluid intake. They also need to avoid spicy food and avoid alcohol, because this will increase the enlargement of kidney cysts and cause further damage to kidneys.

2. Exercise care

As we know, the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, and when kidney cyst enlarges big enough, it will rupture. Once the kidney cyst ruptures, it may cause serious complications and infections. When the kidney cysts are big enough, patients need to avoid bend down, strenuous exercise, hit the waist,etc, which can cause cyst rupture. Besides, patients can take some proper exercises such as walking, jogging, QiGong,Taichi, all these will be helpful for PKD patients and this will help improve the immune system.

3. Medical care

PKD patients also need to take some medical care to their illness. PKD patients often have the symptoms of high blood pressure, swelling, proteinuria and blood urine, they should take effective medical care to help control these symptoms, which can help prevent the further damage to kidneys and slow down the progression of kidney failure.

Above are some nursing care for PKD patients in their daily life. PKD patients need to pay attention to these cares and take them in their daily life right now, which will be helpful for their illness condition. If you still have some questions, you can send an e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

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