Is Peanut Butter Good for PKD Patients

2014-03-15 09:04

Since PKD patients need to pay attention to what they eat to help reduce the kidney burden and prevent further damage to kidneys,so PKD patients need to know exactly what can eat and what cant eat in their daily life depending on their illness condition. Then is peanut butter good for PKD patients?

Peanut is made from a high quality of peanuts which is muddy, and depending on the different tastes, the peanut butter can be divided into two tastes: sweet one and salty one. Because of its nutritive value and good taste, so it is favored by many people all over the world.

Peanut butter is rich in protein, mineral trace elements, large amount of vitamin B, vitamin E, etc, and these are good for PKD Patients. Here are some benefit of eating peanut butter for PKD patients.

1. Reduce high blood pressure

High blood sugar is a common symptom and complication for PKD patients, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further damage to kidneys. Peanut can help lower high blood pressure, which will be helpful for PKD patients.

2. Reduce high blood fat

For some PKD patients with high blood fat will also have a bad prognosis if their high blood sugar cant be controlled well. Eating peanut butter will not increase the blood fat, because the unsaturated fatty acid will be helpful for PKD patients, and it can sometimes helo lower high blood fat.

3. Improve anemia

Peanut butter is rich in some certain mineral trace elements, such as iron, which can help improve the condition of anemia, a common complication for PKD patients.

4. Lower high blood sugar

Peanut butter is also helpful in lowering high blood sugar, which can also help reduce the further damage to kidneys, and protect the residual kidney function.

Although peanut butter is good for PKD patients, but patients need to take peanut butter in a proper way, they need to control the amount of sugar or salt in peanut butter, which are both harmful for PKD patients. If patients have high potassium level or high phosphorus level in blood, they also need to limit the peanut butter intake. In addition, they also need to take proper intake of peanut butter depending on the protein they need, which can help reduce the kidney burden.

Therefore, PKD patients need to take peanut butter depending on their own illness condition, then it would be helpful for PKD patients to take peanut butter. If you still have some questions, you can send an e-mail to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

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