Chillies and Kidney Disease

My husband has kidney disease, and now his creatinine level is 2.1 mg/dl. You can’t image how my husband loves to eat chillies. In this condition, can I give him chillies? Is chili good for people with kidney disease?

Chilli, or chili, is one essential material in many people’s kitchen, because it can flavor our dishes largely. In clinical, chilli is always considered as one healthy food for people with cardiovascular disease, because of its rich benefits. Generally, people can get the following benefits from eating proper amount of chilli, so do kidney disease patients.

1. Lower high blood sugar

The experts in Jamaica prove that chilli capsaicine in chilli can help lower high blood glucose obviously. At present, diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease, so for people with kidney disease and diabetes, chilli may be a good food to try.

2. Improve blood circulation

Polluted blood and kidney disease usually coexist. This is why kidney experts create Blood Pollution Therapy, which is a great breakthrough in this year and has helps many kidney disease patients get relief. (If you are interested about it, you can go to Blood Circulation Therapy). In traditional Chinese medicine, chilli is believed to be effective on improving blood circulation, anti-aging and enhancing the brain activity.

3. Prevent cold

With a big function of boosting patients’ immunity, chilli can help prevent cold and infections effectively. Therefore, people who get sick easily may be suggested to consume some chillies.

Warm tips: Although chillies is a healthy food for many people, it has strong excitant substances that make some kidney disease patients have to get rid of it. For example, if you has vomiting blood, cough, peptic ulcer, etc, you should avoid chilli. In addition, even if the doctor allows you to eat chilli, remember not eat too much one time.