Garlic: A Good Food for Kidney Failure Patients

2014-03-30 06:56

Garlic is a common condiment for people in their daily cooking, and it is also a good nutrition and its nutrition value is higher than ginseng. Garlic contains many protein, sugar, vitamin C, calcium, iron etc, besides, it also has very strong sterilization ability. For kidney failure patients, garlic is a good choice in their daily diet.

Here are some benefits of eating garlic for kidney failure patients.

1. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Garlic has the function of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory because of the garlic spicy element in garlic, which can help prevent infections in body. As for know, for kidney failure patients, infections will cause further damage to kidneys, so patients often recommend to prevent cold and infection. In this aspect, garlic will be a good choice for them.

2. Antiplatelet agglomeration

As we know, kidneys have the function of filtering the toxins and wastes in blood, which can help purify the blood. For kidney failure patients, their kidneys have been damaged severely, the wastes and toxins will build up in blood. When the wastes and toxins build too much, it will cause platelet aggregation, and cause some serious complications.

The garlic essential oil has the function of antiplatelet agglomeration, which will be good for kidney failure patients.

3. Lower blood fat

Garlic can also help lower high blood fat, which will be helpful for kidney failure patients. Because high blood fat will cause further damage to kidneys.

4. Lower blood sugar

As we know, high blood sugar is a common leading cause of kidney disease, so patients need to firmly control their high blood sugar, which can help slow down the progression of kidney failure.

Garlic can improve the excretion of insulin and increase the glucose utilization in tissue cells, which can help lower high blood sugar.

Above are some of the benefits of eating garlic for kidney failure patients, besides, there are also some other benefits such as lowering high blood pressure, lowering cholesterol level, preventing arthritis, etc.

However, since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so patients need to ask the advices of their doctors before they eat garlic. And they should take proper amount of garlic every day. If you still have some questions, you can ask the doctors online.

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