Low protein diets have not proved helpful to PKD patients with advanced kidney disease. Nevertheless, it is not wise to eat excessive amounts of protein. That is because too much protein increases the kidney’s burden. At the early stage of PKD, we recommend PKD patients have high-quality proteins, such as fish, chicken, lean meat, egg, milk and so on.
Reducing salt in the diet helps control blood pressure in PKD patients who have high blood pressure. Moreover, foods with much salt can be easy to cause swelling. Sodium or salt intake is limited to 1/8 teaspoon per day or a 1200mg sodium diet.
PKD patients should eat less hot pepper, alcohol, shrimp and crab and so on. Alcohol can stimulate the polycystic protein activity and speed up the growth of cysts.
The cooked food made by animal viscera is not suitable for PKD patients, especially the liver of animals. The function of liver is to detoxify, much toxins will be left in the viscera, if PKD patients eat them, then there is no doubt that it will increase the burden on kidneys and aggravate the illness condition.
Drinking enough water, to raise serum osmolality just above that of urine shuts down vasopressin, similar to the still-in-clinical-trials experimental drug, tolvaptan.
There are some foods PKD patients should eat more, such as the fruits and vegetables containing high vitamins and iron, such as carrots; foods that can litholysis, such as black fungus; foods that have a diuretic effect, such as the base-forming foods.
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