Health benefits of eating chillies are known to aid, relieve and prevent many conditions. For IgA Nephropathy patients, they can also get health benefits to alleviate symptoms if they consume chillies correctly.
The main component is chillies is capsaicin, which is responsible for relieving various aliments.
What else does capsaicin do?
1. Lower blood sugar levels
If IgA Nephropathy patients have high blood sugar level in blood or they have diabetes. The study carried out that eating chillies can help significantly control insulin. Lowering blood sugar levels is able to slow down the progression of diabetes into kidney disease.
2. Reduce inflammation
IgA Nephropathy is an autoimmune kidney disorder. Due to low immunity, your body fail to protect harmful and toxic substances from attacking your body. In this case, part of inflammation will occur, thus leading to kidney disease. Chillies associated with alterations proteins have been reported in patients with auto-inflammatory diseases such as IgA Nephropathy.
3. Therapeutic effects of chillies
Chillies can be useful in relieving and preventing common problems in IgA Nephropathy such as headache, and discomfort and high cholesterol level.
4. Lower high blood pressure
High blood pressure is not only a symptom but also a leading cause of many kinds of kidney diseases. Controlling or lowering high blood pressure become s more urgent. Chili pepper are naturally high in vitamin A and C and also Bioflavinoids. They help strengthen your blood vessels, which makes them be able to adjust to blood pressure fluctuations. In this light, eating chili pepper can be a renal diet.
Although chili peppers have healthy benefits on people, IgA Nephropathy patients should not eat this spicy foods. Apart from chili pepper, seafood, beef, mutton, crabs, garlic and onion as well as stimulating food.