A potassium binder gives dialysis patients their diet back

People on dialysis must ration potassium ruthlessly — too much can stop the heart — which means giving up much of the fruit, vegetables and ordinary food everyone else enjoys. A study presented at Kidney Week by Wakui of Yokohama City University followed 183 dialysis patients: those given the potassium binder sodium zirconium cyclosilicate alongside nutrition counselling reported strikingly better quality of life around food and steadier potassium control — and none of them needed emergency rescue treatment, compared with 25 of 92 patients in the control group.

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