Four Matters Needing Attention for PKD Patients

For most polycystic kidney disease (PKD) patients, except timely and standard treatment, there are four matters needing attention, which are good for the patients’ timely improvement and recover:

First: prevent cold

The patients with PKD are very painful inside. Because differing from other types of kidney disease, PKD is a type of permanent and genetic disease. Even the patients pay more attention to it and there are more care of family members, it can’t prevent the fact of cysts’ continuous expanding. Now, so cold, especially repeating cold, will aggravate the patients’ condition and make it worse, what’s more, cold will accelerate the deterioration of renal function damage.
Second: make a good control of diets.

Reasonable diets of PKD patients are very important for controlling the deterioration of renal function. The patients should adopt low-salt diets, the reasonable intake should be 2-3 g/day. Eat less food containing potassium and phosphorus. Besides, the patients should adopt low-protein and low-fat diets and take in more food with vitamin and vegetable crude fibre, which can maintain the defecation be unblocked.

Third: prevent injuries

The continuous expanding of PKD cysts will cause the continuous increase of cysts’ intracapsularpressure, which in return can cause the continuous expanding of bilateral kidneys and the increase of abdominal pressures. So, at this time, a slight injury, such as sprain, bumping and falls, may increase the direct impact of abdominal pressures and injury force to large cysts and lead to the burst and haemorrhage of cysts with high intracapsularpressure, which can easily cause infection.

Fourth: make a good control of blood pressure.

Most PKD patients have expressed the symptom of hypertension before the renal function damage. Now, we think PKD has already attacked: the appearance of hypertension will accelerate the renal function damage. Meanwhile hypertension will cause the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular damage, which will cause stroke and other serious complications for PKD patients with cerebral hemangioma haemorrhage. Therefore, a good control of blood pressure is very important for preventing the deterioration of renal function and complications.


If the patients, especially the patients after treatment, can follow these suggestions, it will enhance the curative effects and achieve the goals of treatment.