Benefits of Eggplant for PKD Patients

2014-12-23 07:51

What are the benefits of eggplant for PKD patients? This should be a common question for all the PKD patients. As we know, PKD is a genetic kidney disease, and patients will finally develop into kidney failure without effective treatment. And PKD patients need to keep a well planed diet, which will be beneficial for their illness condition. So patients will wonder whether they can take eggplant in their daily diet.

Eggplant is a beautiful vegetables, which is favored by its high nutrition and delicious tastes, and there are some benefits for PKD patients to take.

1. Protect cardiovascular system

Eggplant is high in vitamin P, which can help protect the blood vessels and protect the cardiovascular system. So taking eggplant can be helpful for PKD patients to prevent the cardiovascular disease.

2. Lower high cholesterol level

Taking eggplant can help lower the high cholesterol level, and this will be good for PKD patients. Since high cholesterol can be a common symptom in PKD, and the unwell controlled high cholesterol level will cause further damage to kidneys.

3. Increase urine output

Eggplant also has the function of increasing urine output, which can help remove the toxins and wastes out, so it will be helpful in purifying blood and protect kidneys.

Above are the benefits of taking eggplant for PKD patients, which will be helpful for their illness condition. However, since the specific illness condition will be different from case to case, so PKD patients need to take eggplant depending on their own illness condition.

Precaution:

Eggplant is high in potassium. In general, the potassium intake can help protect the heart and lower high blood pressure. But for PKD patients whose kidneys have been damaged severely, they will have high potassium level in blood. If they take too much potassium, it will cause irregular heart beat, heart failure or even death. So PKD patients need to limit the eggplant intake if they have high potassium level in blood.

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