Foods with high potassium content include nuts, beans, potatoes, bananas, most dairy products, avocados, salty food, fast food, processed meat (such as lunch meat and hot dogs), bran, whole grain products, spinach, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, tomato and vegetable juice.
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Potassium deficiency can cause irregular and accelerated heartbeat, abnormal electrocardiogram, muscle weakness and irritability, and finally lead to cardiac arrest. Generally speaking, healthy people will automatically excrete excess potassium. But patients with kidney disease should pay special attention to avoid taking too much potassium.
Dairy products, fruits, vegetables, lean meat, viscera, bananas and raisins are rich in potassium.
The main symptoms of potassium deficiency in human body are tachycardia and arrhythmia, muscle weakness, numbness, irritability, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, insanity and psychological indifference.
People's Network-Patients with kidney disease should be alert to high-potassium foods and control their diet reasonably.