2012-02-04

Precautions to Avoid More Risks of PKD

Known as polycystic kidney disease is hereditary disease, We can't change the genes, so we'll study in daily life prevent multiple cyst.
There are some precautions for multiple Kidney Cysts in daily life as below:
1. General matters: avoid severe physical exercises and abdominal trauma; in case of cysts burst, keep belt not too tight as the cysts are too swelling.
2. Control hypertension:this is decisive to protect renal function. The priority is angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, other hypotensor includes calcium antagonists, vasodilator and beta blocker.
Multiple kidney cysts happen to women usually, and it is necessary to prevent urinary tract infection actively.
3. Control the complications: the complications for Polycystic Kidney Disease have been presented before, like cysts burst, bleeding, infection, calculus, here, we need to emphasize the injection.
4. Mental and psychological nursing to patients with multiple renal cysts, sentiment cultivation, as known in Chinese medicine, because the disease has a long disease course and readily relapses, which adds patients’ mental burden. Therefore, it is quite important to understand and encourage patients speak out his worries; inspire them to be broad minded, relax their thinking, avoid any pessimism, not mention to let patient enter the dead end, learn to cultivate sentiment, be confident to conquer the disease and recover at the earliest time.
5. Promote metal and physical rest: e.g. patients with Nephritic Hypertension should check blood pressure on time, increase the time to stay in bed as per blood pressure changes.
6. How to take a reasonable diet for patients with multiple Kidney Cysts? Special diets’ instruction is made as per every disease situation, e.g. patients with renal deficiency should eat diet with more calories, mainly sugar, and quality low protein diet, and they should limit liquid absorption to keep the water balance in body.

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