Can Patients with PKD Drink Wine

Patients with PKD have their inherent shortage of health. So it is very important for them to take care of themselves in daily life in particularly for diet. Scientific and reasonable diet can help to put off the disease's progress, which also plays a great part in treatment and prognosis of the disease. Then, can patients with PKD drink wine?

Many patients with PKD have a habit of drinking wine, but is it proper for them to drink wine? Long term of clinical research has discovered that drinking wine especially white spirit is harmful to patients with PKD. That is because the wine has a great stimulation to kidney, which can directly stimulate the activity of polycystin, and promotes the secretion of sac liquid and the cyst's growth.

The recovery of kidney disease such as PKD and renal cyst needs a good internal environment. While drinking wine more often can increase blood pressure and being over dranked can cause a lost of bound water in cell, and hypermetabolism of creatinine in muscles, which results in an increase of serum creatinine.
Moreover, when alcohol is metabolized, it can produce acidic materials leading to metabolic acidosis, which displays with nausea, anorexia, deprementia and headache, etc. In addition, long time of drinking wine can lead to anemia, platelet function disorder, various haemorrhage, poor gastrointestinal absorption, hyperlipemia, atherosclerosis and nutritional deficiency which leads to low level of utilization of vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and folic acid and increases the secretion of vitamin B6.


Apart from these, drinking wine is also harmful to kidney, which affects the nitrogen balance of the body, increases the metabolism of protein and the amount of BUN. It certainly aggravates the renal burden. Consequently, considering the complicated condition of PKD, experts advise that patients with PKD should pay more attention to not drinking wine, otherwise drinking wine can aggravate renal burden and lead the disease to turn worse.