Can Kidney Failure Patients Take Lettuce

2014-06-20 02:05

Kidney failure refers to gradually reduction of kidney function. When people get kidney failure, the kidneys will fail to work well, so patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. So some kidney failure patients will wonder, can they take lettuce in their daily diet?

Lettuce is a kind of green vegetable, and it is called as “vegetables queen”, which is favored by people. Lettuce is high in nutrition and it also has many benefits for health of people. Certainly, it also has some benefits for kidney failure patients to take.

1. Improve the immunity

For kidney failure patients, they often have a poor immunity, which can be caused by many factors. With the poor immunity, kidney failure patients will easily get cold or infections, and this can worsen the illness condition of patients.

Lettuce is high in vitamin C, and the high vitamin C can help improve the immune system, and it can also help protect the kidney function.

2. Increase urine output

Lettuce contains mannitol, which has the function of removing the toxins in blood, increasing the blood circulation, purifying blood and increasing urine output,all these can be helpful for kidney failure patients. For kidney failure patients, if they have high creatinine level, the intake of lettuce can help lower high creatinine level.

Besides, eating lettuce also has come other benefits, such as lower cholesterol level, losing weight, improve sleep quality, prevent constipation, etc. But this doesn’t mean all the kidney failure patients can take lettuce in their daily diet.

There are also some limits for kidney failure patients to take lettuce.

Lettuce is high in potassium and phosphorus, so kidney failure patients who have high potassium or high phosphorus level in blood need to limit the lettuce intake. Because the high potassium and high phosphorus levels are both harmful for kidney failure patients.

Therefore, kidney failure patients need to take lettuce depending on their own illness condition. If you still have any questions after reading, or you want to get a kidney failure recipe for yourself or your loved ones, you may need to leave a message. We will answer you freely.

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