Can Kidney Failure Patients Eat Beef

2014-07-11 03:29

Can kidney failure patients eat beef? As we know, diet plays an important role in kidney failure, taking a well planed diet can help kidney failure patients reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidney function. So kidney failure patients need to know exactly what can eat and what cant eat in their daily diet.

Beef is a kind of meat which is favored by people because of its high nutrition and delicious tastes. However, for kidney failure patients, we don’t recommend them to take too much beef in their daily diet, and they need to take it depending on their own illness condition.

1. Beef is high in potassium

For most kidney failure patients, they may have high potassium level in blood, which is mainly caused by the low kidney function. And the high potassium level in blood will cause the heart problem, which can be life-threatening. So kidney failure patients need to limit the beef intake. F they have a severe high potassium level in blood, they may need to avoid the beef intake.

2. Beef intake can increase the muscle energy

The beef intake can increase the muscle energy, which will produce more creatinine in blood. Then the damaged kidneys may need to excrete more creatinine in blood, which will increase the kidney burden and cause further kidney damage. So kidney failure patients also need to limit the beef intake, especially for the high creatinine level patients.

3. Beef contains high quality protein

As we know, for kidney failure patients, they may need to limit the protein intake, which can help reduce the kidney burden. Although beef is high in high quality protein, but patients also need to take proper amount of beef depending on their own illness condition.

From above, we can know, although beef is beneficial for healthy people, but it will not be good for kidney failure patients in some cases. So kidney failure patients need to take it depending on their own illness condition. If you want to get more information about the diet for kidney failure patients, you can read the following passages, Kidney Failure Diet, Foods, Nutrition.

 

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