Can Fruits and Vegetables Reduce High Creatinine Level in CKD

Fruits and vegetables can do much good to patients with CKD, helping reduce high creatinine level. High creatinine level is a sign of chronic kidney disease, which means the more severe kidney function is, the higher creatinine level is. Thus, patients with CKD are very eager to find ways to lower creatinine level. Treatment especially Chinese medicines can help reduce creatinine level very effectively, and eating some fruits or vegetables in daily life can also help lower creatinine level a lot. Now please see the below:

Patients with CKD need to have a low phosphorus and low potassium diet in daily life. Much fruits and vegetables can suitable for this request. What is more, there are large quantities of nutrients like vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetable, which can benefit patients with CKD very much. Thus, kidney is carried fewer wastes and kidney function can revive gradually, so that kidney can remove much creatinine from body through urine, lowering high creatinine level.

To help you differentiate easily, we make lists of vegetables and fruits you can eat in daily life.

The following fruits and vegetables contain low potassium:

Apples, berries, grapes, lemon, peaches, fruit cocktail, pineapple, plums, onion, carrots, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, beets, cabbages, etc.

The below is low phosphorus food:

canned green peas, cabbage, peppers, lettuce, onions, beets, carrots, celery, eggplant, cucumbers and rutabaga.

The above food can be the best choices which patients with CKD can eat more in daily life, which can supply enough nutrients without side effects and do good to kidney function.

Apart from low phosphorus and potassium, intake of protein should also be limited, because protein can produce urea which is a waste, putting more burdens on kidney. However, high quality protein can be eaten, because high quality protein contains much nutrition, and produces very few waste when decomposed. In addition, salt can increase blood pressure, affecting kidney function. Thus, low salt is very essential for patients with CKD.

As is known to us, combination of treatment and diet can help patients with CKD achieve the best effects. Thus, diet in daily plays a very important role for patients with CKD, and eating more vegetables or fruits is beneficial to them very much.