Why Kidney Failure Patient should Avoid High Potassium Food

Why kidney failure patient should avoid high potassium food ? Kidney failure patient are not recommended to eat foods with high potassium, high phosphorus, high salt and high fat, but some of them are confused why they cannot eat those foods. The following are some details about it given by the doctor.
1. Foods with high potassium are easy to cause arrhythmia and speed up the heart beat, that may threatening people’s life. Foods such as edible mushrooms, potatoes, yam, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, rape, jujube, peach, apricot, banana, orange, tremella are rich in potassium, so you should avoid to eat it.
2. Foods with high slat are easy to induce the blood pressure increase and aggravate swelling and that will make further damage to the kidneys. Foods with high salt including MSG, soda cracker, dry noodles, soy sauce, Fried dough sticks and so on, people with kidney disease should avoid to eat it.
3. Foods with high phrosphrous are easy to cause calcium phosphate imbalance, make patient itchy skin. Foods with high phrosphrous including kelp, laver, animal innards, sesame, tea,honey and egg yolk, kidney disease patients should not eat too much of them.
4. Foods with high fat are easy to induce hyperlipemia, which may make further damage to the kidneys, so people with kidney disease should avoid to eat animal oil, plant oil is better than it.
5. Plant protein such as beans and the products of them are not good to kidney disease patients, which may add work load to the kidneys.
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