Is Potato Advisable To Be Eaten By People With High Creatinine Level

2014-04-22 08:31

Potato is a common vegetable for people in their daily diet, and eating potato has many benefits for people. Then is potato advisable to be eaten by people with high creatinine level? This will be a question for dialysis patients.

As we know, high creatinine level is often regarded as a sign of severe kidney damage, and people with high creatinine level often need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect their residual kidney function. In this aspect, high creatinine level patients need to know exactly what can eat and what cant eat in their daily diet. Although potato has many benefits for people to eat, but it is not good for high creatinine level patients.

Why high creatinine level people cant eat potato in their daily diet?

Potato contains high potassium, which is about 502 mg in every 100g, and potato is often called as a high potassium vegetable. Potassium in body can help strengthen the excitability of the muscle, and regulate the heart rhythm, which can help protect the heart muscles. In addition, potassium can also help control the high blood pressure caused by high sodium intake.

Although potato has the benefits for both heart and blood pressure, but it will not be good for high creatinine level patients. As we know, kidneys have the function of regulating electrolyte balance in blood. However, for high creatinine level patients, their kidneys have been damaged severely, which will cause the high potassium level in blood. In this condition, high creatinine level patients need to limit their potassium intake and limit the high potassium foods in their daily diet.

And the high potassium in blood will cause some bad effects for high creatinine level patients, such as muscle weakness, heart problems or even death. So they need to firmly avoid the high potassium level foods.

From above we can know that potato is bad for high creatinine level patients, so they need to avoid eating it. Besides, they also need to avoid the other high potassium foods and keep a kidney-friendly diet. If you want to get a specific diet plan for you , you can send you recent test report to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, we will help you make a certain recipe depending on our illness condition.

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