The impact of kidney disease in patients with celery

Kidney disease

Celery is a typically healthy vegetable in our daily life. Because of its good taste and rich nutritions, celery can help deal with various disorders and many people pretty love to eat this vegetable.

Is celery good to people with kidney disease? Since the patients are recommended a strict diet, they must prudently eat every food which the doctor doesn’t suggest. To some patients who pretty love to eat celery, the following answer must be their concern if their doctor or dietitian may not tell them whether they can eat celery.

Celery is a green vegetable that has many medicinal benefits, because it is packed with an assortment of the essential minerals and vitamins that the body needs to function properly. In addition, this vegetable also contains many other useful substances, which determines celery is good to ordinary people, but the answer to “is celery good to people with kidney disease” changes along with different patients’ condition.

To the patient with high blood pressure but no other severe complications, celery is good. The reason is that it contains pthalides, which can help lower high blood pressure, through relaxing the muscles around the arteries and allowing vessels to dilate. High blood pressure is more likely to aggravate patients’ condition. Eating correct amount of celery is able to help control blood pressure.

Besides, celery also contains potassium that determines some patients with high potassium level should limit the intake of celery. High potassium level is very common for patients with kidney disease especially advanced disease. If the patients’ test shows their potassium level is higher than the normal, celery isn’t suitable to them.

Some other people with Purpura Nephritis aren’t recommended this vegetable, either, because allergic purpura often damages the stomach and intestine. The foods contains high fiber will increase the workload on the stomach and intestine. Therefore, patients with the problems of stomach and intestine should also avoid celery.

For people on dialysis, they are more likely to develop some other disorders such as less urine, high blood pressure, edema, build up of waste products like creatinine and BUN and some other symptoms.

In this condition, eating celery may bring them some benefits. Firstly, because celery contains effective ingredients, apiin, bergapen and essential oil, it can help prevent or treat high blood pressure, high blood fat and atherosclerosis. All of these symptoms are common for patients on dialysis. If you have one of them, celery may be a good choice.

Secondly, dialysis patients usually have less urine that causes fluid and sodium retention easily. Then, swelling appears along with. If dialysis patients still have enough urine, celery can help increase their urine volume and ease swelling. However, if patients don’t have any urine, excess celery will increase the workload on damaged kidneys.

In above, we can know that the answer to “is celery good to people with kidney disease” is various according to patients’ specific condition. If you are a celery lover, you should selectively choose to eat or avoid it.