Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients Take Peanuts

2014-12-01 06:41

Can Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients take peanuts? PKD is a genetic kidney disease with multiple kidney cysts on kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time. PKD is a progressive kidney disease, which will finally develop into kidney failure without effective treatment. For PKD patients, they need to keep a well planed diet, which can help reduce kidney burden and protect their kidney function.

Peanuts are a kind of popular foods for people to take, which is high in nutrition, and there are many benefits of taking peanuts in their daily life. So PKD patients will wonder whether they can take peanuts. In fact, PKD patients need to take peanuts depending on their own illness condition.

Here are the benefits of taking peanuts for PKD patients.

1. Lower high cholesterol level

Taking peanuts can help lower high cholesterol level, which can help protect kidneys from further damage.

2. Good for bones

For PKD patients, when their kidneys are damaged, they may have bone problems. Taking peanuts can help strengthen the bones, so it will be good for PKD patients.

3. Prevent cardiovascular disease

Taking peanuts can also help prevent cardiovascular disease, which is a common complication in kidney failure. So it can help slow down the progression of PKD.

However, this doesn’t mean all the PKD patients can take peanuts.

Precaution:

Since PKD is a progressive kidney disease, so PKD will finally develop into kidney failure without effective treatment. When patients suffer from kidney failure, they will have high potassium level or high phosphorus level in blood, which will be bad for their illness condition.

Peanut is also high in potassium and phosphorus, so PKD patients who have high potassium level or high phosphorus level in blood need to avoid the intake of peanuts.

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