Diet to Reduce Potassium Levels Naturally | Dr. Puru Dhawan

In this video, Dr. Puru Dhawan gives information about potassium and why it is important to manage potassium levels.

It is important to manage potassium levels as it helps to balance fluids, regulates nerve signals and generate muscle contractions. It also helps to reduce blood pressure and protect against stroke. Potassium levels above 5.0mEq/L cause fatigue and affect heart which further causes a heart attack. Heartbeat becomes arrhythmic due to high potassium levels. High potassium levels are more dangerous than urea or creatinine levels.

It is recommended to avoid rooty and leafy vegetables. Rooty vegetables like potato, sweet potato, arbi, beetroot, and radish.
And leafy vegetables like spinach, bathua, methi and sarso are highly restricted. A patient can eat low potassium vegetables like tomato, bottle gourd, ridge gourd, pointed gourd and pumpkin.

Low potassium vegetables prevent from cardiovascular disease. It is advised to leach high potassium vegetables. In leaching process important minerals, vitamins get removed along with potassium. So, it is advised to be done when potassium levels are above normal.

It is advised to avoid banana, kiwi, avocado, dates, dry fruits and citrus fruits. Metabolic acidosis occurs when our body produces excess acid or kidney do not remove it. A patient can eat apple, strawberry, grapes, muskmelon but portion size should not exceed 1 cup.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:
𝟏. 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲
It is believed that jaggery can be eaten by kidney patients as they do not contain sugar but a kidney patient must avoid jaggery as it contains high level of sugar.

𝟐. 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐞
As fruit juice contains large amount of fruits which exceeds the actual limit of fruit intake for kidney patient. So, a kidney patient must avoid fruit juice.

𝟑. 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫
Coconut water increase potassium levels which increase the chances of heart attack.

𝟒. 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭
Low potassium salt increases levels of potassium which harms in kidney disease.

Patients of kidney disease are advised to take senda namak or rock salt. Normal potassium levels for a person is 3.5-5.0 mEq/L. If levels of potassium are above 6.5 or 7 it causes dialysis.

𝐒𝐚𝐢 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬
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