Is Star Fruit Bad for Kidney Failure Patients

2015-05-19 02:05

Is star fruit bad for kidney failure patients? This is a question we received from our mail box, pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. In the following article, we will get further understanding of this question. If you still have any questions after reading, you can consult online doctor, or you can also leave a message below. We will contact you soon.

In recent years, some news showed that kidney disease patients got poisoned after taking the star fruits, and they have the poisoning symptoms, such as diarrhea, blood in urine, abnormal in skin, muscle weakness, coma, insomnia, etc, and it was also life threatening in some severe cases.

In fact, there is no researches show that eating star fruits will cause severe damage to kidney failure patients, but some of the kidney failure patients really get the poisoning symptoms. The star fruits can affect the gastrointestinal tract, which can cause the symptoms of diarrhea and abdominal distension. In addition, some of the substances in star fruits can cause damages in capillary basement membrane and epithelial cells in glomeruli, then kidney failure patients will get blood in urine. So kidney failure patients are recommended avoiding eating star fruits.

From above, we can know eating star fruits are not good for kidney failure patients. Since diet plays an so important role in kidney failure patients, and the kidney-friendly diet can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidneys, so kidney failure patients need to make a well planed diet depending on their own illness condition.

Here are some of the common dietary principles for kidney failure patients, such as low protein, low salt, limit the potassium and phosphorus intake, supply enough vitamins, etc, all these will be beneficial for patients. If you want to get a well plane diet for your kidney failure, you can e-mail your recent test reports to us, we will help analyze and give you more suggestions.

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