High potassium can cause dangerous heart rhythm problems; high phosphate damages bones and blood vessels over years.
What to know
- High-potassium foods commonly include bananas, dates, potatoes, tomatoes, oranges and dried fruit.
- Leaching and boiling vegetables reduces their potassium content.
- Phosphate is highest in processed foods, colas, dairy and preserved meats — additives absorb far more readily than natural phosphate.
- Take phosphate binders with food, not after it. Timing is what makes them work.
- Never change binder doses yourself based on how you feel; go by your blood results.
Talk to your care team
This topic is part of Nutrition & Lifestyle, one of ten modules in the Trivita Learning Hub. If anything here contradicts what your own nephrologist or dialysis nurse has told you, follow your care team — they know your prescription, your access and your history.
Trivita's dialysis nurses answer our care line 24 hours a day on 055 242 1070, including for people who are not yet our patients.
Education, not medical advice. This page explains home hemodialysis in general terms for patients and care partners in the UAE. It is reviewed by Trivita's Medical Director but cannot account for your individual circumstances. Never change a prescription, medication or technique based on this page alone.