Daily Home Care for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-05-27 01:48

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease, which will be harmful for the healthy of people, and it can also cause some severe complications. For PKD patients, they need to have effective treatment, which will be helpful for their illness condition. Besides, they also need to know about the daily home cares, which can help prevent the deterioration of their illness condition.

Here are some daily home cares for PKD patients.

1. Prevent infections

For PKD patients, infections are the first important thing that patients need to prevent in their daily life. Because PKD patients often suffer from a poor immune system, so they can easily get cold or other infections, which will cause severe kidney damage and worsen the illness condition. So PKD patients need to prevent infections in their daily life.

2. Keep a positive mood

Some PKD patients will have a bad mood, which is mainly caused by their illness condition. But the bad mood will worsen the illness condition for PKD patients. So patients need to keep a positive mind, and have the confidence of defeating the kidney disease. We all believe this will be helpful for their diseases.

3. Prevent kidney cyst rupture

As we know, the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. And the big kidney cyst can also get ruptured, which will cause some severe complications and worsen the illness condition of patients. The cyst rupture can cause some severe symptoms such as blood urine, back pain, infections etc. All these will be had for PKD patients.

So PKD patients need to avoid the cyst rupture in their daily life, which can help make a good prognosis for patients.

Patients need to avoid the strenuous exercises, injuries in abdomen areas, and the also need to have regular tests, which contains blood pressure, urine test, kidney function test and CT scan. And they also need to avoid the medicine which can cause kidney damage.

Above are the daily home cares for PKD patients that they need to pay attention to these factors, and prevent the occurrence of these factors, all these can help make a good prognosis for them. If you still have some questions, you can leave a message below, we ill answer you within 24 hours.

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