While searching for answers to why my kidney function as not rebounded fully to pre medication plummet, I came across this article.
tcmworld.org/what-is-tcm/th...
Interesting, but do I believe it? Well no, but then, would I try it, frankly, why not. Seems the worst it can do is give me sore feet!
I read an article that suggests any soft drink is detrimental to CKD patients kidney function.I guess my daily tipple is now off the menu, which it should have been for the diabetes, if I'm honest with myself.
Anyway my latest results are not the Christmas pressie I had expected or hoped for. It has knocked me back a little, but the upside I'm still out of stage 3B.
All other results remain static, so the plundering of beetroot has not shifted the potassium levels. Just made the urine a lovely sparkling red bubbly!
I did come across some information that suggests beetroot is beneficial to kidney function, especially canned and drained as the water in the can leaches out potassium. As I like it in vinegar that's not so bad either. I had been cutting back the vinegar content and using more of the water, but I shouldn't be. I should be using tap water with the vinegar so I'm not keeping the potassium content of the caned fluid.So beetroot is ok for now.
With summer on the doorstep and the tomatoes doing well I need to be strong and resist temptation. I grow our own in Zoodoo fertiliser. They grow fast and strong with the best flavour ever. I'm not sure if it is the rhino, elephant, lion or any other animal at the zoo but I do know it is not bull s--t! that makes them so good and tempting. I can't even eat one as it will lead to 2,3,4 and even more!
I find it easy not to have what I'm not supposed to have, until I taste the first bite, then all restraints are gone, as is the offending food!
So the one slice of a medium sized red raw tomato while acceptable at around 45mg potassium is devastating in the end by 300mg potassium approx for each tomato of which that is just the first!
So this year I will be celebrating Christmas without the traditional ham, tomatoes and all the lovely sweet deserts I love to eat. Instead I'll be living it high with Salmon, vegetables, water and some berries for desert! Sounds more like a Bears diet. Such joys of being CKD and diabetic.
The one remaining thought that is constantly in the back of the mind; how much longer do I want to survive CKD, that's what makes sticking to my diet possible. Self preservation is a powerful tool.
Talking about it, or in this case writing about it, while sticking in some borax/ hilarity helps me reset and get back to living again.
All that remains is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a better New Year.
Cheers