PKD, Alcohol and Diets, Treatments

Question: my father has PKD and high blood pressure. He drinks a lot alcohol everyday and i worried a lot. What are the influences of alcohol to his illness conditions. Can you offer him some healthy daily diets?
Answer:Alcohol can cause deterioration of Polycystic Kidney Disease. It can stimulate the liveness of polycystin and accelerate secretion of cyst fluid as well as promote the growth of the cysts. In addition, kidneys of PKD patients have already been damaged. If they drink too much alcohol, the organic nitrogen balance can be influenced. Then there will be increased protein decomposition as well as blood urea nitrogen, which then inevitably add to burden of the kidneys. For healthy people, this may not be very serious. But for PKD patients, this can be a stumbling block on their way to recovery.
There are some diet suggestions for you:
1. Water intake
To decrease all those risk factors, fluid intake is advised to be 500-700 ml more than urine output the day before. For instance, if urine output is 500 the last day, water intake should be within 1000-1200ml in the following day.
2.Salt intake
Excess salt intake can aggravate edema and high blood pressure in kidney disease, especially kidney failure. Generally, salt intake should be less than 5g per day. But for those with severe swelling and obviously reduced urine output, sodium intake should be limited more strictly.
3.Restrict high potassium foods
(1) High potassium vegetables: celeries, spinach, mushroom, seaweed, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, celeries, rape, parsley.
(2) High potassium fruits: bananas, dates, oranges, grapefruits, dates, persimmons, mango, cantaloupe and carambola.
Of course, the medical treatment is must important than the diet. You can send the test reports to us, then we will give you better suggestions.
common treatment .
Pain. Mild to moderate pain can be treated by over-the-counter (OTC) pain medications prescribed by the doctor. In rare cases, your doctor may recommend surgery to shrink the cysts and relive pain.
High blood pressure. Treatments involve anti-hypertensive medications and changes in lifestyle (exercise, diet, stress reduction).
Urinary tract infections . The infection needs to be treated as soon as possible with antibiotics.
Liver cysts. Non-surgical management may include avoiding hormone replacement therapy (HRT), or hormone therapy (HT). Occasionally, surgery may be needed to drain cysts or remove diseased parts of the liver. In rare cases, a liver transplant is needed.
Kidney Failure. If PKD results in kidney failure (end-stage renal failure), patients will eventually need either dialysis or a kidney transplant.
Firstly, before knowing how to treat cysts, you should know how can you have the cyst. as we know, PKD is a genetic disease, but why not 100% people with the genes Dear Madame or friend,
Long time to hear from you, hoping you are fine. We know you have the PKD and glad to give you some suggestions. The following are two points I want to say.
have the disease? The main reason is the poor immunity that virus enter your body and cause inflamation, thus inducing the cysts. Cysts grow on the connecting position of kidney tubules and collecting ducts for there is hyperplasia. More and more cells will block the tubules, thus leading the retention of urine, forming cysts. With the enlargement of cycsts, there is state of ischemia and anoxia. then renal cells will be damaged and kidney function will decrease. Patients will have some symptoms like blood urinem, waist pain and so on.
Secondly, after knowing the causes clearly, there are three aspects for treatment.
1. block inflamation. there are many western and Chinese medicines can block the inflamation, thus stop the aggravation of cysts.
2. shrink and disappear the cysts. The cyst wall are blood vessels. We should apply medicines to improve blood circulation of the cyst wall, which can improve the permeability. then cyst fluid will flow out smoothly and discharge with blood circulation.
3. improve renal function. we must apply treatment for improving renal function or repairing the damaged kidney cells in case the relapse of the disease.
In addition, you should know that there are only 10% renal units have the cyst, so there are great hope for treating the disease. Don't worry.You know, PKD is not only the disease of cyst, but a whole body disease. we also suggest the treatment for improving immunity. After a systematic treatment, the disease can be treated.