Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Take Exercise

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease take exercise? This is a puzzling problem for PKD patients. According to this problem, specialists on Kidney Disease notice that PKD patients can take physical exercise properly and scientifically, but excessive exercise is forbidden. As for PKD patients, which standard of daily exercise and work can not affect their body health? Normally, this depends on patients’ individual illness condition. Generally speaking, there are very few problems before patients are 30 years old. Though cysts of most PKD patients begin to compress each other, the pressure caused by cysts is tiny in this period. So patients can take some safe exercise at this moment, but crashing exercise like basketball should be avoided. Usual light exercise can not affect kidneys normally.

If patients are about 40 years old, they should pay more attention on daily work and life. Because cysts produce larger pressure in this period and strenuous exercise usually bring cyst rupture to patients. For this reason, patients should avoid pressure or collision on kidney region. Especially for a housewife, they should be more cautious when she is looking after a baby in order to prevent baby kicking her kidney region.

As for patients who had suffered from Haematuria before, they are required to pay more attention on their daily activity, because cysts of these patients are much easier to get cyst rupture. In order to prevent Haematuria recurrence, patients should take some exercise with less bending angle and lighter strength burn. Besides, these patients should take chairs with similar height of their knee when they are sitting. Walking and slow run can be taken as main morning exercise.


In a word, PKD patients who want to take some exercise should take a proper exercise volume and avoid excessive activity. Besides, the most important thing is to treat PKD in time and control cysts growing. Only in this way, PKD patients can have a normal life as other healthy person.