What Fruit Can Nephritis Patients Eat

In our daily life, fruit is not only a food that can help digestion, but is beneficial to health. For nephritis patients, different fruits have different effect. Details are as follows:


-The patients suffer from renal insufficiency or edema should avoid salt, banana is rich in sodium salt, which can aggravate edema, bring burden to heart and kidney, so nephritis patients cannot take banana.
-When nephritis patients get heart failure and severe edema, they should not eat the fruit rich in water, such as watermelon, pear, pineapple and so on, in order not to worsen the disease.
-If the patients develop fever, they can take some pears and oranges, these fruits can help produce saliva and slake thirst. The fever patients will sweat a lot, peer and orange can complement water and potassium, which have a lot of benefits for them.
-Nephritis patients with respiratory tract infection can take grapefruit, peer, apricot to reduce phlegm, moisten the lungs, relieve a cough.
-Nephritis patients with high blood pressure and atherosclerosis can take the fruit rich in vitamin C such as hawthorn, jujube, orange to reduce blood pressure, alleviate atherosclerosis.

Patients with nephritis should pay more attention to their diet, avoid taking the food that can deteriorate the illness.
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