Diet Plan For Polycystic Kidney Disease

About PKD diet, here are some advices in daily life. You should follow the diet, and it will do you some help.
You have less food at one time but more times in one day to keep energetic and nutritious.
1. PKD patients should have more water (4000ml) and the urine output should be maintained at about 2000-2500ml.
2. Polluted foods which can cause gastrointestinal diseases or even poisoning symptoms should be forbidden.
3. PKD patients should have a diet with low salt, low fat and low protein. They should avoid beef and mutton, animal innards as well as spicy and excitant foods. Uncooked and cold foods which may injure spleen and stomach should be limited in a certain amount which should depend on patients' specific illness and physical conditions.
4. More fruit and vegetables with rich vitamins are suggested especially those that have the functions of dissolving stones and diuresis. Alkaline foods should also be eaten more.
5. PKD patients should avoid alcohol, tobacco, strong tea and foods and drinks containing caffeine.
Diet control is helpful in controlling cysts. But diet can’t treat the cysts. You should pay more attention to the treatment on shrinking the cysts, the damaged kidenys and recover the damaged kidney function. That’s the right treatment and really can help you with your disease.

Therapies and Diets for PKD

Question: I am now 35 years old and suffering from PKD. I want to know is it curable and is there any chance of death? What are the differences between western therapy and Chinese therapy? What kind of diets should I follow to not aggravate the cysts?
Answer: You asked about the differences between Chinese and western therapies. I think you must know that in western treatment, they treat polycystic kidney disease through removing big cysts by operation which is considered as another kind of trauma to kidney, though operations can relieve patients' symptoms in a short time. Besides, many foreign patients told me that their doctor told them there is no way to treat this disease due to its genetic feature and they have to wait for Dialysis or Kidney Transplant. In our Chinese medicine treatment, we deal with the cysts by reducing cyst fluid secretion and increasing the reabsorption of cysts fluid through improving blood circulation on cysts wall and the permeability of cyst wall. Through this way, cyst can be shrunk gradually and then patients can avoid operations.
As for the diets for you, it depends on your illness and physical conditions and which stage you are in. I will just give you brief and general suggestions and you can consult the doctor for more detailed explanations and choose foods that are most suitable for your illness conditions.
1. Have less salt food (including preserved food, pickles, tinned meat), spicy food (including hot pepper, liquor, shrimp, crab, etc.) contaminated food (perishable food, leftovers, etc.) broiled dishes. Limit high protein food from animal and oily food, etc.
2. Have good rest. Avoid drastic physical strength, and trauma on abdomen.
3. Take nutritional food.
4. Have high-quality protein food, supply high fibre, rich vitamin food, and, eat low fat and sugar food.
5. Do some mild exercises, but not strenuous exercises.
6. Drop smoking or drinking alcohol.
And in the daily life, in order to avoid the rupture of the cysts, (your kidneys are very big now), the abdominal pressure should not be too much. When you bend down, be careful. Don't lift too heavy objects, avoid twist your waist violently, have a loose belt, and try not to have constipation.
Try not to drink coffee, coca cola. And try to be careful not to get urinary infection.

Alkalescent Foods are Conducive for Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients

Under normal circumstances, both the blood and body fluids are weak alkaline and the PH value is between 7.35 and 7.45 and this condition is the best internal state for human health. Therefore it is conducive for our health to have more alkalescent foods in our daily diet. It has been proved that alkalescent foods are good for the recovery of PKD and can help slow down the progression of PKD into renal failure.

The common alkalescent foods include:

1.       Vegetables: Wax gourd, tomatoes, pumpkin, cucumber, turnip, spinach, cabbage, cabbage, rape, celery, lotus, onion, eggplant, potato, etc.

2.       Fruits: Apples, pears, bananas, peach, strawberry, plum, plum, persimmon, grapes, orange, grapefruit, lemon, etc.

3.       Bean and bean products: bean curd, peas, soybean, green beans, etc.

4.       A mushroom, bamboo shoots, chestnuts, tea, coffee, wine and so on, especially algae such as kelp, laver which contain much higher minerals than fruits and vegetables.

5.       Sweet potato is strong alkaline food so PKD patients should have more.

At last I want to mention that not all the above listed foods are suitable for PKD patients. There are some restrictions on the foods of PKD patients.

PKD patients should have low-protein, low-salt, low-fat and high-vitamin foods. Hot and excitant foods such as hot pepper, tobacco and alcohol should be avoided. Coffee, chocolate and strong tea should also be avoided. As for the intake of protein, vegetable protein should be limited or avoided. High quality protein such as milk, lean meat and egg white are good choice.