What Fruits should People with Kidney Failure Avoid

Generally speaking, when the chronic renal disease patients turn into uremia or kidney failure, one of obvious symptoms is inappetence, every time after dialysis, few blood and protein will loss inevitably. As time passes by, the health condition and Nutritional status will aggravate day by day. Then series complications may occur. On the other hand, medicines can not play a role to control current situation effectively. That is the reason why dialysis patients need to pay special attention to their daily diet. So what kind of fruits can be eaten and can not be eaten by patient with kidney failure or uremia?

It depends on the illness condition of patients:
for the kidney failure or uremia patients who has no urine or with high level of potassium, some foods rich in potassium must be forbidden, such as pears, bananas etc.; for the patients with less urine, high blood pressure (hypertension) and swelling, they should also control the water intake strictly as well as some fruit rich in water, because over eat may aggravate the swelling.

What is more, there are still some fruits that can not be eaten anyway by kidney failure or uremia patients:

1 Grapefruit:
in the culture of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the quality of grapefruit is "cold", it is not suitable for deficiency-cold or low blood pressure patients. Do not eat grapefruit when taking pills or tablets, especially for medicines for angina, hypertension, Hyperlipemia or Antihistamine medicines, on the other hand, grapefruits are rich in potassium, so patients with kidney failure or uremia or patients on dialysis can not eat grapefruit. Because it will increase the burden of kidneys.

2 Carambola:
Carambola is very helpful for healthy people, but for the kidney failure or uremia patients, Carambola may cause continuous hiccup, and even cause falling sickness, which is dangerour for patients' life!