Excessive Fasting Can Damage Your Kidney, NAFDAC Warns Muslims, Christians
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned Nigerians against excessive fasting.
Director-General of the Agency, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, revealed that excessive fasting can lead to kidney problems.
Adeyeye during an interaction with journalists in Abuja on Monday added that using substandard, unwholesome products can also lead to kidney failure and death.
Kidney failure occurs when the kidneys can no longer properly filter blood causing toxins to accumulate in the body.
The NAFDAC DG said “We are a very religious country – Muslims and Christians, we fast a lot and it is part of the kidney problem. Your body has to have homeostatic balance, meaning the water level in your body must be enough to make your organs function.
“Some people will fast for 20 days or 10 days without drinking even a little bit of water and the kidney is being punished and it can damage your kidney because the kidney does not have water to dilute and filter, that is what some of us do.
“I fast but I fast with common sense. You have to fast with common sense or else you pay with your kidney.”
The NAFDAC boss also warned against patronising hawkers and corner stores for medicines.
“Do not buy medicines from hawkers, do not buy medicines from corner stores, buy medicines from pharmacies.”
According to the President of the Nigerian Association of Nephrology, Dr Adanze Asinobi, about 869 million people globally are suffering from kidney disease and in Nigeria, there is an increasing prevalence of the disease.
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