What Can Cause Hiccup for PKD Patients

2014-12-29 02:21

What can cause hiccup for PKD patients? PKD, or polycystic kidney disease, is a genetic kidney disease with numerous kidney cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged, which will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage. Then patients will have some severe symptoms, and hiccup is a common one.

Then what can cause hiccup for PKD patients?

1. Medication

For PKD patients, they will have some severe symptoms with the kidney damage, so they need to take some medicines to help control their symptoms. However, some of the medicines will cause side effects for patients, and hiccup can be one. So if the hiccup is caused by medicines intake, patients need to ask their doctor to change their medicine list.

2. Electrolyte imbalance

As we know, for PKD patients, the enlargement of kidney cysts will finally cause kidney damage, then their kidneys will fail to work well, which will easily cause electrolyte imbalance. In this condition, hiccup will be easily to happen, especially when patients have low potassium or low magnesium level in blood.

3. Nerve damage

Hiccup is mainly caused by the diaphragm cramps. When PKD patients suffer from severe kidney damage, it will cause too much toxins and wastes building up in blood, and it will easily cause the damaged to any parts of body and nerves. And this can cause persistent hiccup.

Above are the main causes of hiccup in PKD, so patients need to first get the main cause of their hiccup, and then have effective treatment. In addition, patients need to have effective treatment to shrink kidney cysts and improve their kidney function, then it can help make a good prognosis for them and control their severe symptoms. If you want to get more details or suggestions about the treatment for PKD patients, you can consult online doctor, or you can also leave a message below.

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