Has anybody here (with renal failure) ingested STAR FRUIT?

[alyssacroacia]

I heard that star fruit is deadly to us. But when I opened the fridge I saw that Mom bought some star fruit juice. I just HAD to try some! I took a SIP. Now I'm online, looking it up and the juice was good so I kinda want more but I'm also scared I'm gonna die. Has anyone else done this (or eaten a star fruit)?

[Michael Murphy]

Personally no but I know the symptoms .  The articles I read described prolonged bouts of hiccups that were only cured by 2 long dialysis sessions  conducted over  two consecutive days.  The reason is that this fruit contains  toxins that the healthy kidney filters out.  There have been several deaths reported in  medical literature of patients with esrd.  One of the things that irked at the time is that I have a iPad app for kidney diets and it points out the high potassium level in the fruit but  no mention of the fact it can kill you.  I would call my doctor and tell him or her that you drank som star fruit juice and let the doctor worry.

[kitkatz]

Do NOT drink anymore of it!   
Patients with kidney disease have to watch what they eat: bananas, oranges, tomatoes, nuts, broccoli, and beans are all off-limits. Putting star fruit or carambola on the menu would be downright dangerous. This fruit contains a substance that is a deadly neurotoxin for people with kidney disease. Brazilian researchers have now isolated and identified this neurotoxin. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it is an amino acid similar to phenylalanine.
People suffering from chronic kidney disease have to avoid eating star fruit if they value their lives. Around the world, many cases have been documented in which ingestion of the yellow star-shaped fruit led to poisoning of dialysis patients and people with kidney disease. There are a variety of symptoms: from intractable hiccups, vomiting, weakness, mental confusion, and psychomotor agitation, to unusually long-lasting epileptic seizures, coma, and death. In acute cases, only hemodialysis can save the patient.
It is clear that star fruit contains an unidentified neurotoxin that healthy people clear out through the kidneys without problems. In those with kidney disease, however, the toxin accumulates and can eventually enter the brain. A team at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) has now been able to unmask the culprit.

[Rerun]

Listen EVE... Do Not Touch The Forbidden Fruit!

                

[Wat76]

"Patients with kidney disease have to watch what they eat: bananas, oranges, tomatoes, nuts, broccoli, and beans are all off-limits." So confused by this, I eat bananas, oranges and tomatoes, sometimes broccoli, I don't eat beans because they give me so much gas, however, my Dr only recommend that I take the binders.  I have to eat a banana a day to keep from cramping.  It is so weird how we are all suffering from the same disease, yet our bodies tolerate things differently.  I guess with doing Hemo, your restrictions are greater.  My body is crazy, Thank God all is in working order except the PKD.  Not looking for my time to roll around where I know I will not be able to eat these items.

[Rerun]

A lot depends on if you still produce any urine.  It depends on if you sweat a lot then you lose some potassium.  If you this and that....   But, starfruit has other toxins that do not dialyze out.  It will kill you.  There are just a few things that the artificial kidney will not dialyze out.  That is why we are on a renal vitamin.  Some over the counter vitamins don't dialyze out very well so they can and will build up in our system.   

[Jean]

Just find another juice you like as well, if not better. One glass of juice ( just to see if every body is right) every day is not worth it.

[LisaBart]

I had never heard of this but fortunately starfruit is a rare fruit here where I live...doubt partner would even touch it

[goofball]

I am reading up on this and starfruit is bad for kidneys even in normal people, and can cause kidney damage.

There is a neurotoxin called Caramboxin and oxalates that are nephrotoxic.

If I understand correctly it is the caramboxin that we cannot excrete.