Is Lemon Juice Good for Polycystic Kidney Disease
2013-12-07 15:18
Is lemon juice good for polycystic kidney disease? This is a common question I heard from some PKD patients. As we know, lemon juice is a common drink among people, because there are so various of nutrition in lemon.
The various nutrition contain: vitamin C, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, high potassium and low sodium. All these nutrients are good for human beings. However, for PKD patients, they need to strictly follow their dietary principals and pay attention to what they eat and drink. They need to know if it is good for them to drink lemon juice, and what the benefits are if they can.
In order to answer this question, we asked some professional nephrologists and get a certain answer. If PKD patients drink lemon juice in a certain way, they may get some benefits in controlling their symptoms.
1.Prevent and avoid kidney stones
Kidney stone is a common complication for PKD patients. Drinking lemon juice will prevent the kidney stone, because the citrate in lemon can inhibit the formation of kidney stone. Lemon is also excellent to break down crystals and stones in kidneys and even in the gall bladder. Through preventing the formation of kidney stones, PKD patients will have improvement on their illness.
2. Increase digestion
Taking lemon juice can promote the secretion of protease in stomach, which can increase the gastrointestinal motility of PKD patients. For PKD patients, they often have the symptom of loss of appetite and digestive problem, so it’s better for them to drink lemon juice to increase their appetite.
3.Blood purifier
For PKD patients, because of the damaged kidney function, there will be many toxins and wastes remain in blood, which may cause serious symptoms and complications. Lemon juice is often regarded as blood purifier because it can help the body to remove the toxins and wastes. Therefore, drinking lemon juice will be helpful for PKD patients.
4.Boost the immune system
As lemon contain so much nutrition such as rich vitamin, and it has the function of sterilization, lemon juice can boost the immune system of PKD patients. The increase of immune system will help people to defeat all kind of disease.
From the above, we can get that lemon juice is good for PKD patients. However, if patients drink too much lemon juice or drink in a wrong way, it may also harmful for their health. Here, the nephrologists give a scientific drinking method for PKD patients.
For the first morning drink, PKD patients is recommended to drink a glass of warm water to help rehydrate the kidneys, and then drinking a glass of warm lemon juice. Then during the whole day, you can drink lemon juice in a proper way depending on your illness.
If PKD patients want to drink lemon juice, they need to talk with their doctors. As the illness condition is different from case to case, they need to take lemon juice with a proper amount depending on their illness.
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