Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Cause Gout

2014-05-05 01:03

The common symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) are back pain, blood urine, urinary tract infection, high blood pressure, enlarged kidneys, etc. Can PKD cause gout? Go on reading you can find the answer. If there is something difficult to understand, you can consult online doctor. In fact, PKD can cause gout.

How can PKD cause gout?

Gout is caused by uric acid crystals building up in the body. Uric acid has two sources. One is the purines in our body. And the other is the food we consume, such as organ meat, anchovies, mushrooms, herring, asparagus. Under normal circumstances, uric acid dissolves in our blood and passes through our kidneys into our urine.

Because of these growing cysts, your kidney function declines, as a result, your kidneys excrete too little uric acid. Uric acid is easy to deposit and form crystals when there is high uric acid in the blood. When these uric acid crystals lodge in a joint or other tissues, it leads to inflammation and gout.

How to treat gout for PKD patients?

When you are attacked by gout, you suffer from joint pain, lingering discomfort, inflammation and redness. Your life quality can be affected. Therefore, you should try to find the solution to gout.

-Some medicines can help you alleviate gout. For example, corticosteroids can control gout inflammation and pain, and probenecid can help your kidneys eliminate uric acid and allopurinol can block the production of uric acid.

-In diet, you should restrict the intake of food high in purines, such as meat, fish and poultry. If you do not have edema, you can drink moderate water to help the discharge of uric acid.

Though the above measures can help you alleviate gout, they can not solve the problem from the root. You should shrink these cysts and improve kidney function. In this way, not only can gout be avoided, but also other symptoms caused by PKD can be eased. If you would like to know our therapies, please leave a message below.

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