Why Should PKD Patients Have Low Salt?

Why should PKD patients have low salt? With the growing of the cysts day by day, the bigger one will squeeze the renal nephrons in the kidney, including the renal tubules. Renal tubules have the function that filtrate original urine. When patients are suffering from PKD, the renal tubules will also have abnormal proliferation, which leads to the retention of original urine, thus causing edema or swelling in the patients’ body.
In this case, if PKD patients take in much or normal amount of salt, after salt enters patients’ body, it will combine with sodium, which leads to the retention of water, as well. In this case, the blood content will also increase and blood pressure will become higher.
Besides diet, PKD patients should also attach importance to treatment. Only when we take effective treatment measures, can we gain fundamental effect. Immunotherapy is recommended to treat PKD, which has proved to have good effect in clinic. Generally, the immunotherapy can be divided into 6 steps which are systematic diagnosis, immune inhibiting, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection, and immune clearance. In the whole process, we can not ignore Chinese Medicine. It is also applied to create a proper treatment environment for the treatment of immunotherapy. The function of anticoagulation, preventing thrombosis of Chinese Medicine can also make up the insufficiency of immune treatment. What’s more, Chinese Medicine can decrease the side effect in the immune treatment, which can assure the effect of immune treatment.
We believe that after the immunotherapy, PKD patients can recover and they are not necessary to have low salt and can take in what they like.