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Kidney disease

Bananas are delicious fruits. They are welcomed by many people. But many patients with kidney disease are told to not eating bananas. Are bananas bad for you kidneys? Please follow me to find the answers.

There are no absolute foods for patients with kidney disease to eat or not to eat. It depends on different conditions of different patients. Some patients are allowed to eat bananas, while some are not.

What kind of patients are not allowed to eat bananas?

As we all know that bananas are rich in potassium, which is a necessary mineral to the health of our body.The kidneys are the main organs to regulate the level of potassium in the blood. High level or low level of potassium in the blood are both harmful to our body. Some patients with kidney disease have high-potassium level because of kidney damage. The potassium level in blood will be elevated more if they take too much bananas. So if you are tested with high-potassium level in blood, you are not suggested to take much bananas. For whether you are allowed to eat or not, you should consult to your doctor.

Bananas are rich in sodium salt. If kidney disease or kidney dysfunction patients eat too many bananas, they actually consume more sodium salt. However, their kidneys lose the function of regulating liquid water metabolism, which makes less sodium be removed from their body, so sodium retention will present in their body. In addition, since sodium salt can absorb water and much sodium salt stay in their body, sodium and water will infiltrate tissue space due to the change of osmotic pressure. In this way, edema occurs which aggravates patients’ illness conditions. Besides, sodium salt increases in their body which will also burden their hearts. For this reason, it makes their edema and high blood pressure more severe and further affects their hearts. What’s worse, it can even lead to heart failure. Thus, kidney disease or kidney dysfunction patients are not advised to eat bananas.

The good effects of bananas.

Control high blood pressure. Bananas contain less sodium, which is good for patients with kidney disease. It can reduce the risk of developing swelling. What’s more, low-sodium has a good effect on preventing high blood pressure and the damage of blood vessels.

Prevent tiredness. Bananas can help produce a beneficial chemical substance--serotonin, which can help stimulate the nervous system. Some patients with kidney disease may be attacked by tiredness. Bananas can help alleviate the symptoms and bring patients happy and peaceful feeling.

Bananas are delicious fruits, so some people such as kidney disease patients may eat too many bananas at one time. However, bananas contain many trace elements like Magnesium and Potassium and so on. And if someone intakes too many of these trace elements at one time, which will lead to a rapid increase of Magnesium and Potassium. The rapid increase of Magnesium and Potassium will lead to other trace elements in a disorder state which brings some harms to your health. Thereby, kidney disease or kidney dysfunction patients should not eat too many bananas at one time, and they had better not eat bananas.

Are bananas bad for your kidneys? It is not sure. Whether you are allowed to eat bananas or not depends on your own conditions. You can send your test report to
sjzhospitalrenal@hotmail.com, the kidney expert will help you to analyze or you can talk to the online doctors for free.
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