Grapes And Kidney Disease

Grape is not only delicious but of highly nutritious. It is a good fruit choice for kidney disease patients as well as those that have high blood pressure, swelling, anemia, fatigue, insomnia and it can be eaten by children patients and pregnant women.

Grapes can improve sleep quality

Kidney disease patients often suffer from poor sleep or even insomnia at night and this will severely affect their normal daily life, work and study during the daytime. It has been recovered that eating grapes can help improve sleep quality, regulate sleep cycle and treat insomnia.

Grapes can help improve digestion and appetite, prevent and treat neuradynamia, heart problems, etc and it plays auxiliary curative effects for patients with kidney disease, vascular sclerosis especially if the patient is very weak.

Grapes contain rich iron and it can help alleviate renal anemia since the damaged kidneys can not secrete enough erythropoietin to stimulate the bone marrow to produce red blood cells.

Grapes can help lower blood cholesterol so as to lower the risk of heart diseases and other cardiovascular complications. It has been found by French scientists that grape has better effects than aspirin to prevent thrombosis formation and it causes no side effects or harms to the body. Proper drinking of grape wines can also help protect heart functions and lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Even when kidney disease develops into renal failure, grape is still a good choice because it belongs to low-potassium fruit, therefore it will not worsen the patient’s illness conditions.

Water decoction with grape root can help alleviate vomiting and swelling which are very common among kidney disease patients.

However if the patient has diabetes or constipation, they can not have too much grapes because it contains much sugar and will increase the patient’s blood glucose level and worsen diabetes.