Can Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients Drink Wine?

Wine has great popularity among people, while, Polycystic Kidney Disease patients have many restrictions on their diet. Can they drink wine?

Wine is a kind of indispensable beverage at the feast. However, can polycystic kidney disease patients drink wine?

Now many investigations indicate that alcohol will stimulate human kidneys gravely, increasing the pouch liquid secretion, promote the growth of cysts, thus polycystic kidney disease patients drink wine is equal to chronic suicide.
Besides, drinking have many other side effect for polycystic kidney patients. Specific effects are as follows:

1. If the patients drink regularly, they will suffer from platelet dysfunction, inducing anemia.

2. Drinking will cause digestive disease, bring about nutrient unbalance.

3. Too much alcohol will cause the loss of combined water in the cell, the creatine hypermetabolism of muscle can lead to the increase of creatinine.

4. Alcohol can produce acidic material, causing /metabolic acidosis, which can be seen as inappetence, deprementia and headache.

5. Drinking will affect nitrogen balance of the body, increase protein catabolism, increase nitrogen level in the blood, the condition will burden on the kidney.

6. Drinking will cause high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis, these disease will aggravate the condition of polycystic kidney disease.
Hence one can see that polycystic kidney patients should not drink wine, in case of deteriorating the illness.


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