Can Kidney Disease Patients Eat Banana

For patients with kidney disease, they should pay more attention to diet because they should restrict many ingredients of food due to their diseases condition. As Fruit contains various nutrition, people usually take fruit to supplement nutrition. But why cant patients with kidney disease eat banana?Banana is abundant in nutrition. Every 100g of banana pulp contains 20g of carbohydrate, 1.2g of protein, 0.6g of fat and besides it also contains many kinds of trace elements and vitamins. Vitamin A can promote growth, enhance resistance of disease and is necessary for maintaining normal fertility and vision. Thiamine can help to prevent or treat beriberi, increase appetite, improve digestion and protect nervous system. Riboflavin can promote human body normal growth and development. Besides banana contains much of potassium which can decline blood pressure, so banana is suitable for patients with hypertension.Kidneys are an important organs discharge sodium,potassium and chloride. In body fluid, sodium is a main electrolyte of extracellular fluid and potassium is a main electrolyte of intracellular fluid. The discharge of sodium,potassium and chloride directly affect the relative balance of those ions, which plays a great role in maintaining normal osmotic pressure of body fluid and keeping balance of the volume of body fluid and acidbase. So kidney disease patients should not eat banana when their potassium is in a high level.