Chronic Kidney Disease and Vitamin B6

A variety of vitamins have close relation with chronic kidney disease. Some vitamins help ease symptoms and some vitamins help enhance kidney functions. Here we mainly talk about vitamin B6 and chronic kidney disease.

Vitamin B6 is also called pyridoxine and it has been found to have many health benefits for kidney disease patients. Vitamin B6 can help reduce the formation of kidney stones, ease renal anemia and enhance the patient’s immune system conditions.

Anemia is one common symptom of chronic kidney disease since the impaired kidneys can not produce enough erythropoietin which is an important hormone to stimulate the bone marrows to generate enough red blood cells. Vitamin B6 is often used along with vitamin B12, iron and folic acid to help promote increase red blood cell count.

There are a variety type of kidney stones according to the composition of the stone. High levels of oxalate in urine often make patients have high risk to develop calcium oxalate stones. It has been found that vitamin B6 can help reduce the concentration of oxalate in urine and reduce the risk of developing oxalate stones in the kidneys and urinary tract. The effect is better if vitamin B6 can be combined with magnesium.

Vitamin B6 can help enhance the patient’s immune system because it can help the patient’s immune system to produce antibodies to fight against diseases so as to reduce the risk factors for kidney disease patients.

What is more, vitamin B6 is necessary for the normal growth and development of the skin, brain and nerves.

Though vitamin B6 is good for kidney disease patients, large dosage can cause some side effects such as neurological disorder and numbness. The recommended dosage for women is 1.3-1.5mg and for men it is 1.3-1.7mg for sake of both the effectiveness and safety.

The following are some foods that contain vitamin B6 including whole grains, fortified cereals, breads, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, etc.

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