What diet to follow with a pacemaker and high potassium?

Question

Hello doctor,

I am implanted with a pacemaker. I am aged 71, potassium 5.1, fasting glucose 273, postprandial 353. What diet should I follow?

Answer 1

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It needs to be monitored very strictly with diet so that it will help to manage the present condition and avoid kidney problems.

Strictly follow a diabetic diet plan with complex carbohydrate diet with a split of seven to eight meals per day.

Avoid excess potassium-rich foods like greens, citrus, tender coconut water, ragi in diet till potassium is under control.

You can include fruits like apple, pineapple, and guava in diet approximately 100 g per day.

Answer 2

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In veg, you can include radish, all sorts of gourds, beetroot, carrot, knolkhol (German turnip), in greens only fenugreek, and

In non-veg, you can have chicken, fish (river not sea) and egg whites.