Ways to Manage High Blood Pressure in PKD

2014-11-11 08:09

High blood pressure is a clinical manifestation of PKD which can cause lots of cysts in kidney. If blood pressure is left higher than normal range, renal blood vessels will be damaged due to high impact on vascular wall, which can result in quick aggravation of illness condition. What is worse, it increase patients' risk for stroke. Therefore, a good management of high blood pressure is very important for the tight control of PKD.

Causes of high blood pressure in PKD

In PKD, there are mainly two methods for patients to suffer from elevation of blood pressure, which go as follow:

1. Increase of blood volume in blood vessels

When kidneys fail to remove excess sodium out of the body due to PKD, blood volume increases, which can cause increased impact on vascular wall and thus lead to elevation of blood pressure.

2. Disorder of RAAS

RAAS is an important system of our body, which can help us regular blood pressure. When RASS is affected by PKD, blood pressure becomes higher.

Ways to manage high blood pressure in PKD

There are several ways for PKD patients to manage their high blood pressure well. The following is the detailed introduction and if you have any question, please feel free to contact us.

1. High potassium diet

High potassium intake helps to bring blood pressure down. For PKD patients whose potassium level in blood is in normal range, they can have a high-potassium diet to deal with high blood pressure. (Leave message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com to get high potassium food lists)

2. Low-salt intake

Salt is the most common source of sodium. High-salt intake will cause further increase of blood pressure, so low-salt diet is usually needed by PKD patients.

3. Hypotensive drugs

Medicines like ACE inhibitors, ARBs, Beta-blockers, Direct renin inhibitors can be applied to reduce blood pressure in medicine. They work differently and also show different treatment effects. They are helpful, but if used improperly, they will cause terrible side effects, so PKD patients should choose the right one according to their own condition. (Consult our online doctor to know about which kind of hypotensive drug is proper by you)

4. Regular physical exercises

Regularly physical exercises not only help to manage high blood pressure, but also increase immunity. PKD patients should know what kind of exercise is good for them and try to avoid the improper one, so as to avoid rupture of kidney cyst.

Lastly, the above several ways are helpful for the tight control of high blood pressure, but one thing we need to understand is that high blood pressure is resulted from PKD and if we want to bring it under control naturally, treatment for PKD is needed.

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