Healthy Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet for Indian Vegetarian

Polycystic Kidney Disease, or PKD affects many people’s life as well as Indians. Among them, some are vegetarians. If you happen to be an Indian vegetarian who are suffering from PKD, how to develop a healthy Polycystic Kidney Disease diet for Indian vegetarian must be one of your biggest concerns.

To arrange such a PKD diet for vegetarian in Indian, we have some suggestions listed below.

1. Follow a low-sodium diet

High blood pressure is usually one big complaint of PKD patients. To control blood pressure, a low-sodium diet is a must. For these patients, their intake of sodium should ranges from 1,000 mg to 4,000 mg every day. Therefore, you had better avoid pickled foods, potato chips, bacon, salty drinks, salty condiments, canned foods, etc.

2. Give plant protein a try

Plant protein can help reduce hypertension and slow the growth rate of kidney cysts. Besides, the total amount of protein intake should be restricted to 0.8g/kg per day. It has been proven that a low-protein diet can make PKD patients have an average of about one year without dialysis. As for plant protein, soy is a good choice but you have to stay away from fermented soy products such as tempeh and tofu.

3. Choose fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants

Vitamin C and flavonoids are two common antioxidants in fruits and vegetables. For example, lemon, orange, grapes, cranberry, onion, red bell pepper, cabbage, etc, are good to appear in your dishes or snacks. On one hand, they can help prevent or treat urinary tract infections. On the other hand, they are able to protect your kidneys.

4. Drink enough water or cranberry juice

Water and cranberry juice can help flush out more waste products, so as to help prevent dehydration and cleanse urinary tract, while dehydration and urinary tract infections are two common symptoms of PKD.

5. Control the intake of alcohol, beer and caffeine-containing drinks

Caffeine-containing drinks may stimulate the growth of kidney cysts, so PKD patients had better control their intake of these drinks. As for alcohol and beer, they can increase patients’ blood pressure and cause further damage to kidneys. From this reason, you had better steer away from alcohol, beer, coffee, cola and strong tea.

Many other dietary suggestions can also help treat Polycystic Kidney Disease. To get more suggestions or you still have some questions, welcome to contact us by emailing to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com or leaving us a message.