Are Figs Good for People With Kidney Failure

2014-08-28 01:52

Are figs good for people with kidney failure? Kidney failure means the gradually reduction of kidney function. For kidney failure patients, they need to keep a well planed diet, which can help 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.

Fig is a kind of fruit for people, which is favored by its high nutrition and good tastes. So gigs have many benefits for people to eat in their daily life, and it also has many benefits for kidney failure patients to take.

1. Improve the immune system

Figs are high in vitamin C, which can help improve the immune system. As we know, for kidney failure patients, they often have a poor immunity, which will make them get infections and inflammations easily, and it will make further damage to kidneys. Eating figs can help strengthen the immune system, which will be beneficial for kidney failure patients.

2. Lower blood cholesterol and blood pressure

Lipase and hydrolytic enzymes in figs can help lower the high blood cholesterol level and high blood pressure, which will be good for kidney failure patients.

3. Lower the high blood sugar

As we know, diabetes is one of the leading causes of kidney disease, and the unwell controlled blood sugar will cause further damage to kidneys, so patients need to have effective treatment to lower the high blood sugar. The effective substances in figs can help lower blood sugar, which can help slow down the progression of kidney failure.

4. Supply nutrition

Figs are high in nutrition, such as sugar, fat, protein, fiber, vitamins and amino acids, all these will be helpful for kidney failure patients to supply enough nutrition.

From above, we can know the benefits of eating figs for kidney failure patients, but this doesn’t mean all the kidney failure patients can take figs as they want, because the illness condition will be different from case to case.

Precautions: 

Since figs are also high in potassium, about 212 mg/100g, and the high potassium level will be bad for kidney failure patients who have high potassium in blood. So patients need to take the figs depending on their own illness condition. If you still have any questions after reading, you can ask the online doctor, or you can also leave a message below, we will answer you as soon as possible.

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