Low potassium diet in chronic kidney disease

What is potassium? Why is it important?
Potassium is a common mineral in the diet, there is an important role in maintaining the law of heartbeat and normal functioning of the muscles. Healthy kidney job is to keep the body with the right amount of potassium. However, when the kidneys are no longer healthy, you need to regularly limit certain foods that can raise serum potassium. If the blood potassium level is high, may feel some weakness, numbness and tingling, leading to arrhythmia or heart attack.
What is the safe blood potassium level?
You can consult your doctor or dietitian your monthly blood potassium level, and control here:
3.5-5.0 ........................... safe area
5.1-6.0 ........................... be careful
Higher than 6.0 ........................... Hazardous area
How can the blood potassium level is not high?
· Should limit high potassium foods. Let the kidney nutritionist help develop a diet plan, get the right amount of potassium.
Eat the right amount of food.
· If you want to add some high potassium vegetables to your diet, you should filter before use. During the filtration process, potassium was separated from the vegetables. Ask your nutrition about how much filtered high potassium vegetables can be put in your diet.
Do not eat canned fruit and vegetable juice or cooked gravy.
Remember that almost all of the food has some potassium. The amount of food is very important, a lot of low potassium food can become a high potassium food.
· If you are in the kidney, be sure to follow all the treatment arrangements.
What are the high potassium foods (greater than 200 mg / one)?
The following table lists the high potassium foods. Unless otherwise stated, a size is ½ cups. Please be sure to check the number of copies.
Other fruits and vegetables
Health apricot bamboo shoots chocolate
Avocado roasted oatmeal
Banana bean milk
Melon beet syrup
Jujube Bean Nutritional Supplements: Take only under the guidance of a doctor or dietitian
Dried fruit products cooked broccoli nuts
Fig Chinese cabbage peanut butter
Grapefruit juice raw carrots salt substitutes
Melon dry beans, peas no salt broth
Kiwi green vegetables yogurt
What are the low-potassium foods?
The following table lists the low-potassium foods. Unless otherwise stated, one is ½ cups. Consumption of more than 1 can make low potassium foods to high potassium foods.
Other fruits and vegetables
Apple alfalfa buds
Apple asparagus noodles
Apple jam cabbage, cooked carrot coffee
Apricot juice canned cabbage tea
How do you remove potassium from your favorite high potassium vegetables?
The filtration process will help remove potassium from some high potassium vegetables. It is worth noting that the filter will not remove all the potassium from the vegetables. You still have to limit the amount of high potassium vegetables that have been consumed after filtration. You can ask your dietitian about how much filter you can add to your diet.

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