Latest Precautions of ADPKD

2015-08-02 08:09

ADPKD is a genetic disease, which can be inherited by children with 50% chances. It can not get cured with medical technology nowadays, thus what we can do best for ADPKD is to slow down development of ADPKD better. The below points should be taken notice of in daily life to take precaution of ADPKD.

1. High blood pressure

PKD can result in high blood pressure by cyst growing continuously and damaging blood vessels. What is worse, high blood pressure can lead to kidney failure in the long term. People with ADPKD should pay attention to blood pressure, and text blood pressure regularly in daily life.

2. Diet limitation

People with PKD need to be drawn attention to daily diet. They should have a low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium, and low sodium diet. With the growth of kidney cyst, kidney can be affected, even makes kidney function decrease. In this case, sodium, phosphorus and potassium can build up in body. And much protein produces many wastes, putting pressure on kidney.

3. Cyst rupture

It is very important for people with PKD to prevent cyst rupture. If cyst is big enough and gets crashed by strong movements, it can be broken, causing strong pain in abdomen and blood in the urine. Cyst fluids can make urinary tract get infected. Hence, patients with PKD should shrink kidney cyst effectively and avoid much strong movements. Chinese medicine can treat kidney cyst very well with enhancing permeability of walls of cyst cells and inhibiting inner cells of cyst from secreting cyst fluids. In this way, cyst is shrunk very effectively.

The above is the leading three to take precaution of ADPKD, hoping useful and helpful for you. If you need more information, or have any doubt about this, you are welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctors. It is a pleasure that we can help you and reply you very soon.

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