Can People with PKD Eat Egg White

2014-05-03 08:48

Can people with PKD eat egg white? As we know, for CKD patients, they need to limit their protein intake, which can help reduce their kidney burden and protect their kidney function. Then do PKD patients need to limit their protein intake in their daily diet? The answer is certainly yes. Because the enlargement of kidney cyst in PKD can also cause kidney damage, and people will also have the symptoms of proteinuria. So PKD patients also need to limit their protein intake.

In general, the amount of protein intake should depends on the illness condition of patients. In early stage, there is no damage to kidneys, so patients don’t need to limit the protein intake. However, when the kidney function decreases, patients need to limit the protein intake, which can help reduce the kidney burden and slow down the progression of kidney failure for PKD patients.

Egg is high in nutrition and egg white is high in protein, then can PKD patients eat egg white? The answer is yes.

Egg is one of the best nutrition for human beings, and egg white is high in protein, about 100 g egg contains 12.8 g proteins. And new nutritive value of proteins in egg is the highest among pork, milk, beef and rice. And the high protein intake will cause less waste in blood, which can help reduce the kidney burden.

However, PKD patients need to take proper amount of protein depending on their own illness condition, because the body cant absorb too much of protein. If people take too much egg white, it will increase kidney burden and cause further damage to PKD patients.

In a word, egg white is good for PKD patients, but patients need to take proper amount of eggs depending on their own illness condition. If you are a PKD patients, and you want to know how much you can eat egg white in your illness condition, you can send your test reports to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, we will answer you as soon as possible.

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