Can I Eat Curry If I Have Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD)

As a kind of popular food in India,curry is also welcomed by more and more people throughout the world. However, not every curry food can be a good choice for PKD patients. Thereby, patients with polycystic kidney would better to avoid or limit curry power. The following two kinds of curry food should not be in the diet list for PKD patients.

1.Hot and spicy curry food. In order to make the food memorable, some curry food is added with much chilli or hot pepper which can stimulate your taste sense and make you feel cool. However, this stimulus food also can affect your renal cysts in polycystic kidneys and accelerate its enlargement.

2.According to nephrologists in Long Hai Kidney Disease Hospital, PKD should arrange a reasonable diet which should not increase the kidneys’ burdens or even cause damages to the kidneys. Therefore, if patients with PKD eat spicy curry, their kidneys can be stimulated by the irritating ingredients, so more burdens are brought to the kidneys, which deteriorate the illness condition. For this reason, PKD patients had better not take spicy curry.

3.Usually curry foods is made with various flavorings, which may contain high salt, high fat and other more stimulus substances. All these seasonings are harmful for your PKD for they can stimulate your stomach and aggravate your kidney functions.Moreover, high potassium food , high phosphorus food , high-calcium food and high salt food should also be avoided.

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