subject: Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet: How to Use It to Your Advantage [print this page] Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet: How to Use It to Your Advantage
As of today, it is very unfortunate that there still is no cure that has been discovered for the dreaded polycystic kidney disease. This disease is also known as PKD for short; and fortunately, the kind of food that one resolves to be eating greatly determines the progress of this kidney-wasting disease. A polycystic kidney disease diet, also known to a lot of people as a renal diet, is the best natural treatment that anybody can find for this dilemma.
It goes a long way to greatly delaying a kidney dialysis even up to your late fifties.
The secret to a polycystic kidney disease diet is to begin it as early as possible. For example, if you think that the PKD gene runs in your family, then you should not hesitate to get on the diet immediately. It does not matter whether or not the symptoms of the condition have begun to manifest themselves or not.
If you have just been diagnosed with the PKD or you have a suspicion that the PKD gene runs in your family, then the best immediate action to take would be to go and see a professional nutritionist. Professional nutritionists will easily guide you as to what kinds of foods should go into your renal diet and which ones you should totally avoid. Just knowing which foods you should eat or not is not going to be sufficient in treating your PKD condition enough to delay dialysis or even worse, a kidney transplant; you will need to do a lot of planning and even more dedication to the already-decided-upon diet. It will be hard, but the rewards of sticking to this diet will greatly outweigh the effort put into it.
