Post Date April, 15 2023
Summer is the season of fruit abundance. On the fruit stand, watermelon, peach, litchi, plum, mango, grape, cantaloupe and so on can't be counted. Kidney friends often worry about what I can't eat when facing so many fruits? What is edible? What is good for my health after eating?
Eating fruit often has many benefits
Fruits are rich in sugar, vitamins and dietary fiber, which are healthy for most kidney friends. Eating fruit often can reduce inflammation in the body and improve gastrointestinal flora. Fruits are rich in vitamin C, which can also help iron absorption and prevent anemia.
Focus on quality rather than quantity
Some nutrition experts said that eating too much of anything is not good. I think it is very reasonable.
Different fruits have different nutritional values. It is recommended that you often eat them in different ways. Take advantage of the abundance of fruit in summer, 200g of fruit per day, seven days a week without duplicate samples.
Blood sugar problems need to be careful
The sugar content of fruit is generally high, and the glycemic index (GI) is high. Patients with blood sugar problems need to be careful. When blood sugar control is stable, you can eat a small amount of fruit (100-150g per day), and choose less ripe and less sweet fruit to eat. For patients with unstable blood sugar, please use tomato and cucumber instead of fruit.
Water limit patients should be calculated
Water is the main component of fruit, and most fruits have a water content of 80% or even more than 90%. When eating fruit, dialysis patients or edema patients need to calculate their water content in the whole day's liquid volume.
Avoid high blood potassium
The potassium content in fruits is high, and kidney friends are prone to hyperkalemia. In case of this situation, the intake of fruit should be suspended to avoid further hyperkalemia and life-threatening. When blood potassium returns to normal and urine volume is normal, 150-200g of fruit can be recovered every day.
The carambola hurts the kidney. It should be forbidden
Carambola, causing kidney damage and even death in patients with kidney disease, has been reported at home and abroad. This is related to the neurotoxin contained in carambola and the high potassium content. Kidney disease patients can not metabolize in time due to renal function damage, and finally cause serious consequences. Therefore, carambola should be included in the blacklist of kidney friends.
To sum up, kidney friends who have blood sugar and potassium problems and need to limit water should be careful when eating fruit. Other kidney friends can eat fruit other than carambola, 200g per day is appropriate.
