Polyhcystic Kidney Disease, as a hereditary disease, is a condition that the
kidneys are filled with numerous cysts in different sizes. Both timely treatment
and dietary principles are crucial to delay the illness condition from going
into Kidney Failure. If it develops into End Stage Renal Disease, patients have
to undergo dialysis and when the kidney function is lost completely, kidney
transplant may be recommended by your doctors.
You can get some knowledge about the foods or things which patients with
Polycystic Kidney Disease should avoid from this article.
1. Too much fat
Polycystic Kidney Disease patients should avoid fat, because too much fat can
workload the kidneys. However, patients have to consume adequate lean meat to
guarantee the protein intake.
2. Too much salt
All patients with kidney disease should stick to the low salt diet. Because
too much salt intake can break the balance of acid base and also salt will
retain water and fluid in the cysts.
3. Pasteurized foods
Anything after pasteurized is not suggested for PKD patients.
4. Alcohol
Some doctors might say alcohol is not always bad for the kidneys. However,
alcohol can raise blood pressure, which will accelerate the deterioration of
kidney damage.
5. Cigarettes
It is bad for PKD patients to smoke cigarettes.
6. Coffee and chocolate
If you avoid eating the above things or doing the above things, you can also
not recover from PKD. What you should do is to receive proper treatment to
control the cysts growing.
