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As a natural nourishing food with rich nutrition, honey has abundant nutrient components such as glucose, amino acid, mineral substances, enzyme and organic acid. Honey has some therapeutic effects on certain chronic diseases. Consuming honey for a long time and regularly is helpful for heart diseases, high blood pressure, constipation and liver diseases, etc. However, nowadays kidney failure is a high prevalence of morbidity and complication. Diet is very important in the process of treatment. Well then can kidney failure patients eat honey?
With the following benefits, honey is beneficial for kidney failure patients.
1. Protect cardiovascular vessels
Honey is able to improve the blood component, advance heart and vascular function. It has great advantages to cardiovascular diseases.
2. Promote appetite
Researches have proven that honey has regulation on gastrointestinal function and make gastric acid secretion normal, which is able to promote digestion.
3. Enhance immunity
Honey contains various enzyme and minerals. And after synergy, they helps boost immunity. With improved immunity, kidney failure patients can avoid cold and inflammation as well as other diseases, which is helpful for their overall health conditions and even stop the development of kidney failure.
4. Lower high blood pressure
For high blood pressure patients in kidney failure, they should drink a cup of honey in the morning and evening. It has the function of lowering high blood pressure. As a leading cause for kidney disease, lowering high blood pressure is able to reduce the risk for kidney disease and other diseases like heart disease and atherosclerosis.
From the above four aspects, kidney failure can eat honey. However, when they eat honey, they should know how much they can eat. If they eat too much, it may worsen their medical conditions or even speed up the progression of kidney failure. Any unclear about the above information, leave us a message to kidneycares@hotmail.com or consult our online doctor.
