PKD: How to Prevent Anemia

Anemia is one of PKD complications, usually not appearing until PKD develops into end-stage renal failure. Compared with other renal failure patients whose diseases are caused by other kidney diseases, PKD patients often get anemia later. But patients who suffer continuous hematuria may have light anemia earlier than other PKD patients.
Why dose anemia appear in the PKD patients? The first and the key reason is that renal damages make kidney erythropoietin reduce and influence bone marrow generating immature red blood cells. The next reason is that the patients controlling protein intake for a long time leads to the concentration of plasma protein drop. The last reason is that a large amount of harmful substances accumulating in the body restrain marrow hemopoietic function, aggravate the blood cell damage, and influence the life of red cells. Now we have known pathogenic factors of PKD. Next we have to take some measures to prevent anemia appearing in PKD.
(1) Prevent cold
The patients with PKD are very miserable, because different from other kidney diseases, PKD is a permanent inherited disease. Even if their family gives a lot of consideration to them, they still can’t stop cysts increasing. At this time, to catch a cold is certainly to aggravate anemia and kidney damage.
(2) Prevent injury
Cysts increasing will lead to the pressure in these cysts rising, bilateral renal becoming bigger, and intra-abdominal pressure increasing. Then any slight injury will influence the development of patients’ disease and give rise to rupture of cysts. At that time, the patients will be infected easily.
(3) Control the blood pressure
Most of the patients have hypertension before kidney damage, so we call their polycystic kidney has had disease. As we all know, the appearance of hypertension will speed up renal damage, aggravate anemia, and cause many serious complications like heart damage, cerebrovascular rupture and apoplexy. Therefore controlling the blood pressure is very important to remit the patients’ condition.
(4) Form a good eating habit
In the process of treatment, a good eating habit can play an important role in controlling kidney damage. Using low salt, low protein, low fat, and containing much plant crude fibre diet can keep the patients’ bowels open, so more toxins in their body are excreted and their anemia is remitted.
Taking measures to prevent anemia actively, you can still have a relatively good health. I hope we can give a blue sky back to you. Please keep a good mood and build up your confidence.