The moon is full and families are reunited, but you should be careful with your kidneys during the Mid-Autumn Festival! A guide for kidney dialysis patients to eat mooncakes, please check it out~

Mid-Autumn Festival with full moon and beautiful flowers

The annual Mid-Autumn Festival, as the protagonist of the festival, mooncakes are definitely indispensable, so how should dialysis patients choose mooncakes? Today, the Blood Purification Center of Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine will talk to you and help you enjoy the festive atmosphere while staying healthy.

Mid-Autumn Festival Diet Suggestions

1. "Four Lows and One High" Dietary Principle

Mooncakes have different materials and nutritional components due to their different "fillings". Nowadays, there are rich varieties of mooncakes, and new styles are emerging in an endless stream. Blindly choosing or eating in excess will inevitably bring burden to the body and affect the condition.

Kidney patients on dialysis should be cautious when choosing and eating mooncakes, and follow the "four lows and one high" dietary principle of "low salt, low potassium, low phosphorus, low fatty acid and high vitamin".

2. Do not choose mooncakes with high-phosphorus fillings

Do not choose mooncakes with high-phosphorus fillings. For mooncakes with flavors such as longan, walnut and date paste, lotus seed paste and egg yolk, and five-nut ham, because the phosphorus content is too high, it is easy to cause hyperphosphatemia and affect health. It is recommended that you try to avoid choosing mooncakes with these flavors when choosing.

3. Don’t choose mooncakes with high potassium fillings

Do not choose mooncakes with high potassium fillings. Mooncakes with fruit fillings usually contain high potassium, such as strawberries, pineapples, and red dates. Eating them can easily lead to elevated blood potassium levels in kidney patients, especially those who already have symptoms of high potassium levels. At this time, they should strictly control the intake of foods with high potassium levels.

Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncake Selection

Choose mooncakes with low sugar and oil content. Mooncakes are usually high in sugar and oil. Hemodialysis patients should try to choose mooncakes with low sugar and oil content to reduce adverse effects on the body.

Snowy mooncakes: Snowy mooncakes are the best choice. Snowy mooncakes are mostly made of wheat flour, corn starch, and lotus root starch, which have less impact on the health of kidney patients.

Friendly reminder

In addition, you should also be careful not to drink high-sugar beverages when eating mooncakes. Mooncakes are high in sugar and fat, especially for "diabetics"! It is recommended to eat them with tea to relieve greasiness and aid digestion. Don't drink juice, soda, or beverages, otherwise it will "add sugar to sugar".

Kidney friends, mooncakes are delicious, but they are lightly sweet and should not be eaten in moderation. Whether you are eating mooncakes or a big meal during the Mid-Autumn Festival, remember not to be "greedy"!

Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Zhou Ming, Blood Purification Center, Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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(Edited by YT)