Is it necessary for PKD patients to abstain from alcohol? Most PKD patients
who are fund of alcohol usually ask this question. As for this question,
specialists on Kidney Disease warn that PKD patients must get away from alcohol
in order to protect their healthy. Drinking can cause many adverse impacts on
PKD patients’ health.
After research, scientists found that liquor, especially white wine, should
be forbidden firstly for patients who suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease due
to strong stimulation of liquor to kidneys. Alcohol can stimulate the activity
of Polycystin directly, which can increase cyst fluid secretion and speed up
cysts growth.
A favorable internal environment is necessary to treat Polycystic Kidney
Disease. However, frequent drink can increase blood pressure and remove bound
water of cells. Besides, frequent drink can cause hyperfunction of creatinine
metabolism, which can increase serum creatinine content. When alcohol is
degraded, it can release acid substances which can lead to metabolic acidosis,
expressed by nausea, low appetite, gloomy spirit as well as headache and other
symptoms. Long-term drink can also lead to Anemia, function disorder of platelet
and various bleedings. What’s more, excessive drink can result in malabsorption
and nutrition deficiency which make organic body utilize vitamin B1 and vitamin
B2 as well as folic acid in a low efficiency and increase vitamin B6 excretion.
Hyperlipidemia and Atherosclerosis can also be caused by alcohol intake. All
these are damaged that drink can bring to body, which is really harmful to PKD
patients’ recovery.
In addition, alcohol can also injure kidneys. It can affect nitrogen balance
of organic body, increase proteolysis and increase urea nitrogen content in
blood, all of which can burden kidney heavily. As for healthy people, this
problem is not so serious. But as for PKD patients, this is a severe problem to
recovery.
However, besides abstaining from alcohol, PKD patients should also accept
active treatment which is the key of treating Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can treat Polycystic Kidney Disease
effectively.
If you need more information of this treatment or PKD, please leave us a
message or email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.
