How to Prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease in Daily Life

2015-03-19 06:02

How to prevent polycystic kidney disease in daily life? This should be a common question for all the PKD patients. As we know, PKD is a genetic and progressive kidney disease, and patients will finally develop into end stage kidney failure without effective treatment. So patients need to take methods to help prevent the worsen of PKD, which can help make a good prognosis for patients.

Here are some of the common precautions for PKD patients in their daily life.

1. Prevent cold

Since PKD is a genetic kidney disease, so patients was born with polycystic genem, and the disease will accompany with them for their life long. PKD patients need to pay more attention to themselves, especially for the cold. If patients get cold with PKD, it will worsen their illness condition and cause further damage to kidneys.

2. Control well of their diet

Diet plays an important role for PKD patients, because a well planed diet can help slow down their progression and prevent the worsening of their disease. Patients need to limit the salt intake, limit the potassium and phosphorus intake, keep a low protein, low fat diet, and they also need to take some foods high in vitamins and plant fibers. All these will be beneficial for their illness condition.

3. Prevent an injury

Since the kidney cysts in PKD will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will lead to the big belly and enlargement of kidneys. In this condition, PKD patients need to prevent the injuries, which can prevent the kidney cyst rupture, then it will be good for PKD patients.

4. Control well of the blood pressure

As we know, high blood pressure is one of the common symptoms in PKD, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further damage to kidneys. And the high blood pressure can also cause damages in heart and cardiovascular system. So patients need to take medicines to control their blood pressure.

Above are some of the precautions for PKD patients to help slow down their progression. If you still have any questions after reading, you can consult online doctor, or you can also leave a message below.

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