What Are the Diet Principles for PKD Patients

What Are the Diet Principles for PKD Patients Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic kidney disorder covering small and big cysts on kidneys. If patients do not treat it timely, it will cause renal failure. Diet and medicine treatments are all essential to solve the condition. In the following we will introduce what the diet principles for PKD patients are.

It is known that all of us should keep healthy diet habits in daily life, let alone kidney disease patients. Healthy and reasonable diet can not only help patients to improve the whole condition of the body, but also relieve kidney burden to protect residual functions.

What are the diet principles for PKD patients?

First, PKD patients should keep low protein diet.

They can eat more vegetables and fruits in their daily life which rich in antioxygen and vitamin. What is more, protein in vegetables and fruits is more helpful for reducing high blood pressure and relieving the enlargement progression of renal cysts. Bean products contain high quality protein to slow down the progression of PKD, such as tofu.

Second, PKD patients should keep low salt diet.

It is because too much salt will cause edema or high blood pressure for patients. Edema and high blood pressure are the symptoms of PKD, thus it is necessary to reduce the intake of salt. If patients’ condition is not serious, 3 to 5 g of salt a day is enough. But if they have serious symptoms, the amount of salt should decline to 1 to 2 g or lower.

Third, patients should drink reasonable amount of water.

The amount of water is decided by the patient’s condition. If patients have serious edema or high blood pressure, they need to drink less water and control the volume. If patients have high kidney functions or no serious edema, enough water is recommended.

All in all, you’d better take diet under the guidance of doctor to inhibit the progression of cysts.

If patients with PKD keep reasonable and healthy diet, they can help slow down the progression of renal failure. Timely treatment is necessary for patients to have a better prognosis.

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