Anyone with high Potassium levels?

beedeedee

Not looking for medical advice, purely diet.....
After my latest MOT at GP's, I was advised I had high Cholesterol and I decided to try eating more healthily than I had been, so cut out red meat, butter and dairy food and ate more fruit and veg instead.
Now, I've been told my Potassium level is too high, so to cut out fruit juices, bananas, tomatoes, avocados, spinach, mushrooms and to boil veg, especially potatoes to within an inch of their lives!
Does anyone else suffer from high Potassium levels and what sort of meals do you eat?
I can't seem to win......!

Pop_Up_Pirate

beedeedee wrote: »

Not looking for medical advice, purely diet.....
After my latest MOT at GP's, I was advised I had high Cholesterol and I decided to try eating more healthily than I had been, so cut out red meat, butter and dairy food and ate more fruit and veg instead.
Now, I've been told my Potassium level is too high, so to cut out fruit juices, bananas, tomatoes, avocados, spinach, mushrooms and to boil veg, especially potatoes to within an inch of their lives!
Does anyone else suffer from high Potassium levels and what sort of meals do you eat?
I can't seem to win......!

Sometimes a high potassium level doesn't actually mean you have high potassium in your body.
What happens is some cells will rupture as blood is drawn and the potassium leaks into the sample, giving a false high reading.

Dehydration can also cause high potassium levels. Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, but not fruit juice.

I would go back to the doctor making sure I was completely hydrated and ask for the test to be done again.

There is nothing wrong with red meat, especially grass fed, organic and butter is a good source of healthy fats.
Milk is best avoided though.

A diet high in healthy fats, and low carbs will reduce 'high' cholesterol and will give you the right potassium levels.
Fruit should be kept to a minimum, and definitely no fruit juice as all this does is flood your body with sugar/carbs. As an example, you would need to eat about 30 bananas a day to overdoes on potassium.
But there is absolutely nothing wrong with spinach, mushrooms and avocados, all of which are bursting with nutrients.
Cooking to that extreme is also backward thinking unless you have a serious medical disorder.

A normal diet, with plenty of water, does not need potassium management.

keithdc

beedeedee wrote: »

Not looking for medical advice, purely diet.....
After my latest MOT at GP's, I was advised I had high Cholesterol and I decided to try eating more healthily than I had been, so cut out red meat, butter and dairy food and ate more fruit and veg instead.
Now, I've been told my Potassium level is too high, so to cut out fruit juices, bananas, tomatoes, avocados, spinach, mushrooms and to boil veg, especially potatoes to within an inch of their lives!
Does anyone else suffer from high Potassium levels and what sort of meals do you eat?
I can't seem to win......!

Were you difficult to get blood from?

Any history of kidney problems?

Do you know what the number was?

Potassium is very well regulated by the kidneys as high potassium is bad. It is unlikely to caused by diet unless you ate a lot of bananas and chocolate before your blood was taken.

If everything else is normal, I suspect it is an erroneous reading that may have come have been caused by the way the blood was taken.

beedeedee

Thankyou for your replies. I have already had a retest (no results yet), but I didn't really drink a lot of water before I had it, so if it still shows high, I'll ask for another. The vein blood was taken from is quite a deep one, but there was no problem getting my blood. I'm afraid I didn't ask the Potassium figure, but I will next time. I have no known problems with my kidneys and I feel fine, so hoping it's an error in the test. Will let you know when I hear anything. Hopefully won't have to change my diet again....!

Pop_Up_Pirate

beedeedee wrote: »

Thankyou for your replies. I have already had a retest (no results yet), but I didn't really drink a lot of water before I had it, so if it still shows high, I'll ask for another. The vein blood was taken from is quite a deep one, but there was no problem getting my blood. I'm afraid I didn't ask the Potassium figure, but I will next time. I have no known problems with my kidneys and I feel fine, so hoping it's an error in the test. Will let you know when I hear anything. Hopefully won't have to change my diet again....!

Have a look at a low carb. high fat diet. Will sort the cholesterol out too