Can I Take Cheese With Kidney Cysts

2014-07-28 07:05

 

Can I take cheese with kidney cysts ? This should be a common questions for all the kidney cysts patients who like to take cheese in their daily life, in this article, we will help answer this question. If you still have any questions after reading, you can ask the online doctor, or you can also leave a message to us.

Cheese is made by curdling milk and draining the whey, and it is a popular food in daily diet of people, because of its good taste and high nutrition. Cheese is high in protein, fat, calcium, sodium, phosphorus and potassium, etc, all these will be good for the health of people.

However, for kidney cyst patients, it will be harmful for them.

1. Since cheese is high in protein, the more patients take, the more protein metabolism patients will have in blood, and this will increase the kidney burden and cause severe kidney damage.

2. Cheese is also high in potassium and phosphorus. If patients who have kidney damage in kidney cysts, too much potassium and phosphorus intake will cause high potassium and high phosphorus levels in blood, which will cause some severe damages to patients.

3. Cheese is also high in sodium, which will be bad for kidney cysts patients who have high blood pressure or swelling.

From above, we can know that cheese will be bad for kidney cysts patients, but this doesn’t mean all the kidney cysts patients should avoid the intake of cheese in their daily diet.

For kidney cysts who is in a slight condition, and their kidneys can still work normally, they can take proper amount of cheese in their daily diet. So kidney cysts patients need to take cheese depending on their own illness condition, which will be good for their disease.

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