It is well know that reasonable daily life and diets habits play an important
role in the treatment of the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), which
is a genetic disease. Although there's no cure for it yet, there are some
measures to take to restrain the growth of the cysts and what you eat can also
have a real effect on how fast the condition progresses. There are some tips for
the diets of the patients of PKD.
Follow a Low-Protein Diet
Eat less meat, cheese, and even a little less of the higher protein beans and
legumes like chickpeas and lentils. Use vegetables and grains for your main
dishes and if you need extra calories, add healthy fats like avocados and olive
oil.
Low-salt diet
Try to use less of sauces like ketchup and soy sauce. Avoid highly processed
foods like meats, soups, and vegetables that come in cans. Even low-sodium
varieties of these have more salt that something you'd make at home.
Vitamins and Minerals
Vitamin and mineral supplements are frequently needed since dietary
restrictions may prevent a renal patient from receiving all the needed nutrients
necessary for a healthy and balanced diet. Kidney dialysis can also remove
vitamins from the bloodstream. Vitamin supplements should only be prescribed by
a physician in patients with kidney disease.
The prognosis
The disease gets worse slowly, eventually resulting in end-stage kidney
failure. It is also associated with liver disease, including infection of liver
cysts.
There are great individual differences for patients of PKD. If the patients
have much more complications, and is under Uremia, the prognosis is bad. Some
patients may have renal insufficiency, but there are not any complications, the
disease may progress slowly, and the prognosis will be better. Generally when
there appear symptoms the survival time may be about 10 years. If the patients
don’t have dialysis or kidney transplant, the average age at death is about 50
years old. The main reasons of death of PKD are kidney failure, cardiac failure,
intracranial hemorrhage and lung infection etc.
