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Too high Potassium level

Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Apr 14 7:56pm | Replies (4)
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@brotherchuckles80 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect, Charles!

Potassium is one of the things we kidney patients need to be mindful of. Hyperkalemia is too much potassium, where hypokalemia is too low. Hydration can play a big part in that. From Healthline comes this list of foods to watch: https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-health/kidney-disease-and-potassium.

For myself, my renal diet includes little in the way of potatoes, tomatoes, citrus, bananas. Interestingly, because my medications also include a diuretic, I need to take a potassium supplement to help avoid heart issues.

What stage kidney disease are you in? what is your most recent eGFR?
Ginger

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brotherchuckles80 | @brotherchuckles80 | Apr 14 4:09pm

My diet has very little Potassium in it but the doc told me that it may be the Spironolactane that is elevating. I had been eating a small container of potato ships between lunch and dinner and have gone over to Snyders pretzels which has 0 Potassium but doe have some Sodium in but very small amount; 60 mg for 10 pretzels. I have also gone over to Almond Milk and Rice Crispies instead of low fat milk and Cheerios. Very little potatoes in my life. So, with that said, I am looking forward to a better report in May.
Thank you for sharing with me. Charles aka brotherchuckles80

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