Kidney friends eat an egg every day, more or less?

Many people avoid eating more eggs, such as eating one egg every other day or no more than three or four eggs a week. Worried that eating eggs every day will raise cholesterol, especially patients with kidney disease are also worried about the increase of blood phosphorus.

In fact, for most people, an egg a day is not too much.

Worried about high cholesterol? Let's talk about cholesterol first

Eating eggs is the cause of high cholesterol and hyperlipidemia-the old idea of the last century has been proved wrong.

In the last century, there were indeed many dietary guidelines that did not recommend cardiovascular patients to eat eggs, especially egg yolks. At that time, it was thought that 1 eggs contained about 200 mg of cholesterol, while most dietary guidelines recommended a daily intake of 300 mg of cholesterol.

From this point of view, an egg in daily diet does have the risk of exceeding the standard. Because patients with kidney disease are prone to hyperlipidemia, the intake of egg yolk is also limited.

So what's wrong with this view?

In fact, the total cholesterol intake every day has little to do with blood cholesterol.

Recent studies have confirmed that there is no positive correlation between cholesterol intake in eggs and serum cholesterol level.

In recent years, authoritative guidelines have also lifted the restrictions on patients' egg intake. However, once rumors spread, it is difficult to recover. So far, many people have entered this misunderstanding.

Will egg yolk increase blood phosphorus?

Nephropathy patients dare not eat egg yolk for fear of high blood phosphorus. This makes sense, but it only applies to patients with severe renal failure, accounting for only a small part of kidney friends.

The renal function of most kidney friends is normal, and some kidney friends with slightly decreased renal function and no electrolyte disorder can eat egg yolk normally.

If renal failure is serious, electrolyte disorder occurs, and the risk of blood phosphorus is high, you can eat an egg yolk every other day (egg white can be eaten every day) to ensure nutrition as much as possible without excessive phosphorus intake.

People with high cholesterol can help by eating eggs properly.

Eggs contain lecithin, which can prevent cholesterol from depositing on the blood vessel wall, but it is beneficial to cardiovascular health.

Peking University has a follow-up study. People who eat eggs regularly have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those who eat fewer eggs by 65,438+08%. You know, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death of chronic kidney disease, so eating eggs is not only beneficial to the kidneys, but also beneficial to longevity.