Is Sleeve-Fish Good for Kidney Failure Patients

2014-04-27 07:01

Is sleeve-fish good for kidney failure patients? As we know, kidney failure is a kind of kidney disease with the kidney function gradually reduced. In order to slow down the progression of kidney failure, they need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which will be helpful for their illness condition.

Sleeve-fish, which is also called squid, is a high nutrition food, and it is favored by people. Sleeve-fish is high in nutrition, and the most high nutrition is protein and carbohydrates. Here are some benefits of eating sleeve-fish for kidney failure patients.

1. Prevent cardiovascular disease

Sleeve-fish contains large amount of highly unsaturated fatty acids, such as EPA, DHA etc, which has the function of lowering high cholesterol, preventing hardening blood vessels, which can help prevent cardiovascular disease.

2. Lowering high blood pressure

Sleeve-fish contains taurine, which is beneficial for kidney failure patients, such as regulating blood sugar, lowering cholesterol level in blood, protecting liver, preventing and treating high blood sugar, improving immune system, etc. All these will be helpful for kidney failure patients.

3. Calcium, phosphorus and iron

Sleeve-fish contains high calcium, phosphorus, iron, all these are helpful in building up the bones and good in treating anemia. And the phosphorus in sleeve-fish can help the development of bones and teeth.

Besides, there are also some other benefits for kidney failure patients of eating sleeve-fish, such as improve immune system, prevent cancer, etc.

Although sleeve-fish is so good for kidney failure patients, this doesn’t mean kidney failure patients can take it in their daily diet, there are also some limitations for them to follow.

1. Take proper amount of sleeve-fish

Since kidney failure patients need to take proper amount of protein in their daily diet depending on their own illness condition, so patients need to limit the intake of sleeve-fish.

2. Swelling patients need to avoid sleeve-fish

Since swelling is a common symptom for kidney failure patients, and patients with severe swelling need to avoid the intake of sleeve-fish, because it is high in sodium, which will worsen the symptom.

In addition, sleeve-fish is also high in potassium and phosphorus, which will also be harmful for kidney failure patients who have high potassium level or high phosphorus level in blood.

Therefore, kidney failure patients need to take sleeve-fish depending on their own illness condition. They can ask the advices of their doctor to make a well planed diet, which can help slow down the progression of kidney failure.

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