Polycystic Kidney Disease Patient should don’t smoking

Can polycystic kidney disease patients smoke? This is a commonly asked question and it is more concerned among men and they want to know weather they should give up smoking and what kind of effects will smoking has on the cysts.

Many PKD patients especially male patients concern weather they should give up smoking or not and want to know the harms smoking will bring to them.

Here, I would introduce some harmful effects of smoking. Smoking predominantly affects the lungs and cause lung cancer. In addition, smoking can also affect many other organs such as heart. It can raise the heart rate and cause stress on the arteries and heart so as to increase the incidence of heart disease. In view of this, the answer of the question “should Polycystic Kidney Disease patients stop smoking” is yes.

On the other hand, smoking can damage the upper respiratory tract and lung and make PKD patients more susceptible to colds, infections and pneumonia. Infections in the lung and trachea will in turn worsen PKD.

Therefore it is recommended that smokers to get rid of smoking and non-smokers to stay away from tobacco so as to avoid aggravation of hypertension and PKD.

Besides limitations on smoking, PKD patients should try to avoid alcohol, caffeine-containing foods and drinks, spicy and excitant foods or polluted foods.