Is Hami Melon Good for PKD Patients

2014-06-17 03:49

Is Hami melon good for PKD patients? This is a common question for all the PKD patients who like eating hami melon. As we know, PKD is a genetic kidney disease, and it will finally cause kidney damage. So PKD patients also need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can help lower the kidney burden and protect the kidneys, and they need to know what can eat and what cant eat in their daily diet.

Hami melon is high in nutrition, such as protein, dietary fiber, carotene, pectin, sugar, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, phosphorus, potassium and sodium, all these will be good for the health of people. And hami melon has many benefits for PKD patients to eat.

1. Enrich the blood

Hami melon has the function of promoting the human hematopoietic machine, which can help relieve the symptom of anemia for PKD patients.

2. Prevent the urinary tract infection

Eating hami melon can also help prevent the urinary tract infection, which is a common complication for PKD patients.

3. Improve the immune system

Since hami melon is high in vitamin C, so it can help improve the immune system and protect the kidney function. And it can also help prevent the infections to make kidney damage.

Above are the benefits of eating hami melon for PKD patients, but this doesn’t mean all the PKD patients can take hami melon in their daily diet, there are also some taboos for PKD patients.

1. If PKD patients have high blood sugar, they need to avoid the hami melon intake, because hami melon is high in sugar.

2. If PKD patients are in end stage kidney failure, they need to avoid the hami melon intake, because it is high in potassium, which will be bad for end stage kidney failure patients.

3. PKD patients should also take proper amount of hami melon, because too much intake will cause diarrhea.

Therefore, PKD patients should take hami melon depending on their own illness condition. If you still have some questions after reading, you can send e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

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