Doctor with 23 years of experience on how to reduce harm from powerful drugs
Almost all medicines (especially effective) have side effects, which sometimes turn out to be so serious that therapy almost loses its meaning.
But there are ways reduce harm from certain groups of drugs.
For example, such popular medicines as diuretics (diuretics).
They are prescribed quite often for a variety of diseases - hypertension, heart failure, gout, liver and kidney pathologies, pregnancy, nephrotic syndrome, adrenal pathology, etc. They are also needed for allergic or infectious diseases.
The peculiarities of diuretics are that people taking them pass urine lose a lot of trace elements, first of all, potassium. Potassium-sparing diuretics exist today, but they are not readily available or indicated.
In order not to miss the situation, you need to periodically take tests and include in your diet foods rich in micronutrients:
- dried fruits: dried apricots, raisins, prunes, apricots. Here we must remember about the calorie content and not abuse it. You can cook compotes without sugar,
- peas (one of the most potassium-rich foods), lentils, soy,
- buckwheat, oats,
- porcini mushrooms (especially dried),
- spinach,
- potatoes, carrots, beets,
- coffee (here is my article about benefit of coffee),
- pistachios, almonds
- black currant, hawthorn,
- apples.
Your Doctor Pavlova
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