Management for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

2014-04-03 07:00

Do you know how to manage the illness when people suffer from polycystic kidney disease (PKD)? As we know, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic kidney disease with slowly kidney damage and it may lead to kidney failure. Therefore, patients need to take care about their illness to make a good prognosis of their life. In this article, we will give some suggestions to PKD patients to help manage their PKD.

1. Pain

Pain is a common symptom for PKD patients, which can be occurred in lower back and sides. In this condition, patients may need to take some medications to relieve their pain. If the pain is caused by the enlargement of kidney cysts, patients may need to have effective treatment to shrink the kidney cysts and slow down the progression of kidney failure.

2. Blood pressure

High blood pressure is another common symptom for PKD patients, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further damage to kidneys and increase the progression of kidney failure. Patients can take hypotensive drugs which can help control high blood pressure such as ACEI and ARBs.

3. Dietary changes

PKD patients also need to change their daily diet and keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. The recommended diet changes include low-protein diet, low-salt diet, limit fluid intake, etc, all these will be helpful for the illness condition of PKD patients.

4. Weight loss and exercise

For PKD patients, they need to keep a healthy weigh, which can be helpful for their illness. Besides, they also need to do some proper exercise, which can help improve their immune system and prevent the infection or inflammations to kidneys.

Besides, patients also need to have prompt and effective treatment to control their illness and relieve their symptoms, which can help prevent the deterioration of kidney failure.

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