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Can i eat bananas if my potassium is 5.1?

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High Potassium level: If you have kidney disease, you should be very careful with potassium in diet. A regular size banana, is equivalent to 10meq of potassium pill and this can increase the level by few points depending on the kidney function.

Answered 5/8/2014

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