Can People with Chronic Kidney Disease Drink Lemon Juice

2014-11-08 14:58

Lemon juice as a popular drink is loved by many people, even the patients with kidney disease are attracted by its good tests. Then as a kidney disease can he/she drink it ?

The good side of lemon juice for people with kidney disease

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, citrate, malate, high potassium and low levels of sodium, etc. All of these nutritions are very beneficial to our body, especially vitamin C, it plays an important role in maintaining the generation of various tissues and cells of body. It also can be a natural antibiotics, so it is good for preventing and treating kidney functions, inflammations, urinary tract infections as well as other infections and viruses which lead to kidney disease easily. What is more, recent studies have also found that green lemons can help lower high blood sugar level.

The bad side of lemon juice for people with kidney disease

As we mentioned above, it is high in potassium, so if you drink too much of it, that may increase the rate of getting Hyperkalemia.

Form the above we know that lemon juice is good for people with Chronic Kidney Disease, it can supply enough nutrition for them. But for people who are in the advanced stage of this disease, they should avoid drink it, especially those people with little urine output, that can help them reduce the risk of getting Hyperkalemia.

Different patient should have different diet plan, so if you want to know whether you can drink lemon juice or not, you can consult our online doctor or leave messages to us, we will try our best to help you. But remember that, the key point to cure Chronic Kidney Disease should be a proper treatment, not only a fit diet plan.

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