02/03/2024
What, how to eat?
( for Chronic kidney disease, hyperkalemia, complications of hypertension with diabetes)
What is potassium?
Potassium is a mineral found in most of the foods you eat everyday. It’s also an electrolyte. Electrolytes conduct electrical impulses throughout the body. They assist in a range of essential body functions, including: blood pressure, normal water balance, muscle contractions, nerve impulses,
digestion, heart rhythm, pH balance (acidity and alkalinity).
Our body doesn’t produce potassium naturally. So, it’s important to consume the right balance of potassium-rich foods and beverages.
The imbalance of potassium consumption can lead to serious health issues
specially for the patient of CKD( chronic kidney disease) and Hyperkalemia.
Healthy kidneys maintain normal potassium levels in the body because they remove excess amounts through urine.
The recommended quantity of potassium for the patients they should take is less than 2000mg/per day.
Low potassium levels in blood is also called hypokalemia. Normal levels of potassium range from 3.5 mmol/L to 5.1 mmol/L in adults. Usually, levels under 2.5 mmol/L are considered to be very serious.
Most of the foods we intake have potassium so that we cannot avoid the potassium entirely, but we will be able to control the quantity of potassium we should take in a day as follows; for making
potassium less than 2000mg/a day.
(633mg/1 meal × 3=2000mg)
Example;
* w/rice 1 cup 100 mg
* Fish 45g 100 mg
* 2 kinds veg 200 mg
* 1 kind fruit 100mg
with 1/2 cup of milk 100 mg
=1 meal 600 mg of potassium around.
* white rice 1 cup 100mg
* fish 45 g 100mg
* tofu 40 g 100mg
* cucumber 50 g 100mg
* lettuce 35 g 100mg
(4 leaf)
* chinese cabbage
(4 leaf) 45 g 100mg
* egg plant 40 g 100mg
* pumpkin 50 g 100mg
* mushroom 35 g 100mg
* radish 40 g 100mg
* leek 25 g 100mg
Fruits
* blueberry 150 g 100mg
* apple 100 g 100mg
* strawberry 70 g 100mg
* grapes 60 g 100mg
* lemon 80 g 100mg
* orange 80 g 100mg
* pineapple 100 g 100mg
* kiwi 40 g 100mg
* tomato 50 g 100mg
* peach 50 g 100mg
* banana 30 g 100mg
( putting vegetables in water for 2 ~10 hours, or boiling them shortly, will make the potassium lessen to 20~30% ).
