Drinks People with PKD Can Consume and Not Consume

Drink is an obbligato part in our daily life. It is same for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease. A correct drink is able to keep their overall healthy, while a mistaken drink can worsen patients’ condition. Therefore, making clear drinks people with PKD can consume and not consume is necessary.

Drinks people with PKD can consume

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic disorder and characterized by numerous fluid-filled cysts in the kidney. If these cysts are controlled very well, they usually don’t cause any severe healthy problems. Therefore, the best drink for people with PKD is the one that can help inhibit the growth of kidney cysts or help prevent complications.

Firstly, we recommend warm water, or warm water adding lemon juice, because these two drinks are able to increase patients’ urine to make more wastes and toxins from the body without any side effect if patients urinate normally. As a result, their blood is purified and the rate of cyst growing is inhibited.

Secondly, some fruit or vegetable juice is also suitable for these patients. For example, cranberry juice and carrot juice, containing rich vitamin C, can help improve kidney function and increase the rate of kidney filtering creatinine and blood urea nitrogen, so as to lower high creatinine level and high BUN level.

Drinks people with PKD can not consume

1. Alcohol and coffee

These two drinks both can stimulate the growth of kidney cysts to some extent, through prompting the cystic cell proliferation and sac fluid secretion. Therefore, patients with PKD had better avoid alcohol and coffee.

2. Sodas

Sodas or carbonated beverage is high in acidoid and caffeine, which are harmful to patients’ condition without any nutrition. Thereby, people with PKD are not suggested to consume this type of drinks.

The above are all drinks that are common for us and now we have made clear drinks people with PKD can consume and not consume. The last thing I want to note is that some herbal teas also can help shrink kidney cysts in PKD, but the correct choice should be made according to patients’ condition.