The Treatment and Diet principle for PKD Patients

PKD is a kind of genetic kidney disease. If one patients want to get a good prognosis. The suitable treatment and diet is the most important fields to treat PKD. So let us know more about the treatment and diet principle for PKD patients.

Diet principle for PKD patients 

1、 Low-salt diet
Sodium in salt is associated with water balance in our blood. It can cause high blood pressure as well as aggravating swelling, one of symptoms in PKD when it progresses to renal failure. As you know, high blood pressure can further damage the kidneys. Usually, after developing hypertension 10 years or so, PKD suffers begin to have renal failure. Therefore, low-salt diets are important in PKD. Salt intake should be limited to 2 to 4 grams per day. You had better avoid all kinds of food containing much salt, such as canned meat, pickled vegetables, salted condiments, etc.
2、 Moderate protein intake

When the liver utilizes the protein we eat, it produces a substance named urea which needs to be filtered out by our kidneys. For healthy kidneys, it is easy to filter urea out, while it is not that easy for your damaged kidneys. What’s more, too much protein surly puts extra strain on the kidneys. Due to this fact, moderate protein intake is recommended. Eat less meat and dairy products.

Treatment principle for PKD patients 

In the early stage of polycystic kidney disease, symptomatic treatment and support treatment are good choice for patients. The key point is to control blood pressure, prevent urinary tract infection and the further damage of renal function. In the middle stage of polycystic kidney disease, operative treatment is very important, it can relieve the pain of patients, decrease blood pressure; for the patients with kidney stone, they should accept calculus removed treatment. In the later stage of polycystic kidney disease, the patients have the symptoms of uremia, so they should consider accepting dialysis. For those who can afford, they can also consider kidney transplant operation. For the patients who have severe hypertension, infection and bleeding, their damaged kidney should be cut off before they receive kidney transplantation.

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