If you have existing kidney damage or a risk of kidney stone, you should be cautious to eat spinach.

Kidney disease

Different foods have very different potassium contents.  You may need to limit or avoid foods that are high in potassium. Your registered dietitian will help you make an eating plan that gives you the right amount of potassium.

Is Spinach Bad For Kidney Disease PatientsAre Kidney disease patients OK to eat spinach? Spinach is a winter super food and it is full of nutrients and delicious taste. Generally speaking, although spinach will not cause any type of kidney damage, you may need to be careful with this vegetable if you have existing kidney disease or a history of kidney stones.

Why is spinach bad for kidney disease patients?

Spinach contains high potassium. If kidney disease patients have high potassium level in blood, eating this high potassium food may be dangerous. The declined kidney function causes potassium accumulation in your blood stream. In this condition, high potassium level will affect your heart rhythm. Although spinach is unlikely to damage your kidneys and even to cause kidney failure, you still need to restrict the intake of this vegetable and other high potassium foods if you have advanced kidney disease. From this aspect, kidney disease patients should not eat this high potassium vegetable.

In addition, spinach may also cause kidney stones. This is because spinach is high in oxalate which has a tendency to bind to the mineral calcium. When oxalate combines with excess calcium in your kidneys, it can form hard, yellowish compounds called kidney stones. In severe cases, they can become as large as golf balls, cause severe back or abdominal pain, including vomiting. This can also lead to a fever or result in bloody urine.

If you have existing kidney damage or a risk of kidney stone, you should be cautious to eat spinach. However, it does not mean all kidney disease patients cannot eat spinach. If you have no elevated potassium level or any symptoms of kidney stone, you can eat spinach. In this condition, you can consult your doctor or our online experts to know whether you can consume spinach or not.

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Leading to a high risk of kidney stones iced te

Leading to a high risk of kidney stones iced tea

In summer, many people like ice tea, and so do I. For people with Polycystic Kidney Disease, they have some dietary restrictions, so many of them doubt whether they can drink ice tea. I have to say you’d better give up it.
Side effect of iced tea

The most commonly seen side effect of iced tea is the high risk of kidney stone. Iced tea contains massive amounts of calcium oxalates, which also serve as the prime constituent of kidney stones. The medical report explained that the presence of an excessive amount of oxalates in the body might prevent its removal through the urine. In turn, these oxalates aggregate and form crystals, which could increase in size and block the vessels of the kidney.

 For those with excessive urinary oxalates, black tea should be eliminated because black tea is a high-oxalate beverage. Curhan, Willett, Rimm, Speizer,  in a retrospective study of previously non-stone forming women from the Nurses' Health Study, that the type of beverages consumed proved relevant for stone formers. Of the 17 beverages studied, and after correcting for other contributing factors, those who drank one daily 8 ounce glass of grapefruit juice had a 44% increased risk of a stone event in the 8-year period, while the risk was decreased by 8% to 10% for each daily 8 ounce serving of coffee (both caffeinated and non-caffeinated), tea, or wine. A prospective study had similar conclusions for men, additionally showing that beer had a protective effect and apple juice increased the risk of stone events (Curhan, Willett, Rimm, Speigelman, & Stampfer, 1996). Also, a study published by Massey and Sutton (2004) showed a modest positive relationship between caffeine intake and urinary calcium levels in stone formers and non-stone formers, so caffeinated beverages should be limited in stone formers. In summary, stone formers should drink more water and avoid excess caffeine, black tea, and grapefruit and apple juices.

Kidney stone is one of the complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Accompanied by enlarged renal cyst, it will cause more serious pain in the kidney area.

Drinking iced tea occasionally may not affect natural health to a great extent, but for some individuals, iced tea has served as the replacement for water as a source of fluid for the body. To prevent the possible damage of oxalates in iced tea to the kidneys and to natural health, it may thus be beneficial to consider plain drinking water or other fruit juices in replenishing that thirst.

Treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease
Except for foods and drinks you are taking, there are some other things you should be concerned. You can take some Chinese herbal teas such as dandelion tea and nettle leaves tea. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can help you not only shrink the kidney cyst but also improve kidney function. In other words, this therapy is to solve the underlying problem.
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