Benefits of Eating Apple for PKD Patients

2014-04-13 01:03

Apple is regarded as “the king of fruits”, which has many benefits for people to eat because of its high nutrition. Here we will introduce the benefits of eating apple for PKD patients.

Apple is high in sugar, acids, aromatic alcohols, vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and iron. All these will make great benefits for PKD patients. Here are some common benefits of eating apple for PKD patients.

1. Improve immune system

Eating apple can help stimulate the produce of anti-body and white blood cells, which can help improve the immune system. For PKD patients, they often suffer from a poor immunity, so they will get cold or infections easily, and the infections can worsen the illness condition and make a bad prognosis for people.

2. Prevent heart disease

Apple contains large amount of folic acid, which has the function of prevent the occurrence of heart disease for PKD patients. As we know, when PKD develops into kidney failure, it will cause the damage to heart which will be life-threatening. So eating apples will be good for PKD patients.

3. Strengthen bones

The boron and manganese in apple can prevent the loss of calcium in bones, which can help strengthen the bones for PKD patients. For PKD patients, the damage of kidneys can cause high phosphorus level in blood, which will cause low calcium, and thus will cause bone problems. In this aspect, apples will also be good for PKD patients.

From above we can know the benefits of eating apples for PKD patients. However, since the illness condition is different from case to case, so apple is not suitable for all the PKD patients. If patients have a high potassium level in blood, they may need to limit the apple intake. Because apple is high in potassium, and it will increase the potassium level for PKD patients, which will cause severe complication for PKD patients.

Therefore, PKD patients should eat apples depending on their own illness condition, they can first ask the advices of their doctors. If you want to know now after your reading, you can contact our doctor online, they can help you freely.

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