Can Diabetic Nephropathy Patients Eat Carambola

The subtropical carambola is also known as star fruit due to its pentagonal shape. Star fruits is popular in a wide variety of countries due to its good taste, what is more, carambola also has medicinal values. While, can Diabetic Nephropathy patients eat carambola ? Let’s have a look together.

Carambola is rich in vitamin C, which can boost the immune system, so as to fight against cold and flu. Eating vitamin C can help patients to increase immunity to protect common infections.

Carambola also contains varieties of nutrition like potassium and sodium. These nutrients are necessary to maintain physical fluid level, which is helpful to control blood pressure. But if your potassium and sodium are higher than normal, you should limit the intake of carambla.

Although carambola has many benefits, which does not mean that patients should eat carambolas as much as they can.

However, a study has revealed that carambola could be fetal for Diabetes. Carambola also can cause death, especially in patients with kidney failure.

This is because that carambola contains a kind of natural toxin which can stimulate nerve and then damage glomerular capillary basement membrane and epithelial cell. At last, it cases hematuria.

For kidney disease patients, since there is something wrong with toxins role of nerve, so eating carambola can worsen kidney damage.

Therefore, how much carambola should patients eat mainly depends on patients’ own illness condition, if you want to know more abut the health diet can Diabetic Nephropathy eat, you can talk it with our online doctor directly, or send email about you own illness condition to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com. We will reply you as soon as possible.

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