Thursday, June 6, 2013

Why can't nephritis patients eat kimchi


Over the years, the streets of kimchi belong to hot food, but, you know, not every a person's physical fitness can withstand of pickle.
Known in China in recent years, south Korean kimchi street lane heard, south Korean kimchi spicy crunchy, is a good meal and appetizers. Summer hot, inappetence, normal people have about food choices also prefer vegetables rather than meat. We all know, patients with chronic nephritis had a strict dietary requirements. So, nephritis patients can eat kimchi?
SARS wreak havoc around the world, the only South Korea southeast Asia to survive, a lot of people in the study after the eating habits of all countries, the phenomenon is due to kimchi. Authentic kimchi pickled mature, containing about one hundred million per gram of lactic acid bacteria, lactic acid four times the highest can achieve the same weight, intestines and stomach has a lot of benefits for human. However, patients with nephritis had better not eat kimchi, reasons are as follows:
1, belongs to food of pickled kimchi, the salt. Nephritis patients should strictly control the intake of salt, because the excretion of sodium will add to the kidney function, serious can cause renal toxicity.
2, kimchi, fake and inferior products. Since south Korean kimchi is popular, the streets of China are beginning to sell pickles, many supermarkets also have packaged kimchi for sale, however, there are many fake and inferior products. In 2009, several media reports, pickled vegetables sold in the supermarkets no hygiene license, wrap instructions are Korean, no preservatives. Some undesirable businessman in order to profit retention, shorten the fermentation of pickles using chemicals. To enter these pickles will aggravate the burden of kidney function, serious harm human health.
3, nephritis patients diet has many taboos. South Korean kimchi in kidney disease (CKD) are not to eat many things, such as ginger, mushroom, bamboo shoot, tofu skin, etc.