Is Plum Good for PKD Patients

2014-05-18 09:16

As we know, for PKD patients, they need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help protect their kidney function, so they need to know the benefits of eating what they eat. For PKD patients, they also recommend to take more fresh fruits in their daily life, which will be helpful for their illness condition. Then is plum good for PKD patients?

Plum is favored by people because its high nutrition and good tastes. So many PKD patients also like to eat it in their daily life. Here are some benefits of eating plum for PKD patients.

1. Relieve stress and fatigue

For PKD patients, because of their kidney damage, they often suffer from severe stress and they also get fatigue easily in their daily life. Eating plum or taking plum juice can help them keep a good mood, which can also help relieve their stress and fatigue.

2. Improve the appetite

For PKD patients, the low kidney function will cause the accumulation of wastes and toxins in blood, which will stimulate the digestive system and make a poor appetite for patients, thus will make more damage to patients and worsen the illness condition.

Plum can help improve the appetite, and help patients to get enough nutrition, which can also help relieve the symptoms such as hair loss and bone weakness.

3. Improve the immune system

Since plum is high in vitamin C, which can help improve the immune system and this can also help protect the kidney function. All these will be helpful in improving the immune system.

Above are the benefits of taking plum for PKD patients. However, since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so not all the PKD patients can take plum in their daily life. Since plum is high oxalates, so PKD patients with kidney stones need to limit the intake of plum.

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