Potato Scones

[stornoway]

I need to make potato scones for someone with kidney problems. Potatoes have a high potassium content and so I need to double-boil potatoes to lower this and thus shop-bought scones are out of the picture (unfortunately). I have tried and tried but cannot get my scones anything like shop ones. This means the person I make them for, doesn't like them! (She also has learning difficulties). Can anyone help me please?

[woofgang]

what doesn't she like about them?

[gness]

I know eating potatoes every day means double boiling but can the occasional shop bought scone be very dangerous?

[woofgang]

gness, it depends on what the kidney function is like. I had to be super careful with my late DH.

[gness]

And me with a husband with no kidneys..extra careful at home but we could eat out. Anyone with kidney problems needing to be so careful will be having regular potassium checks. x

[Jeza]

Excuse me for being thick, but what is double boiling?

[gness]

To rid the potatoes of as much potassium as possible, Jeza I had to half boil them then discard that water and finish in fresh.

[Jeza]

Thanks gness. Can you now tell me what problems potassium causes?

[woofgang]

With us, they didn't want to start him on dialysis and he was down to less than half a kidney.

[Jeza]

Woof, that doesn't answer my Q. Unless it is something to do with Kidney problems?

[gness]

High potassium causes numerous problems for renal patients from slow pulse, tingling and burning sensations, sickness and weakness to heart failure. Our worst experience was in a pub in Cambridge when the hospital hadn't picked up on OH's high level that week. He became paralysed and I had to hoick him over my shoulder, put him in the car and whizz off to a hospital....seems he was lucky that it stopped his legs working because the levels he had usually stopped the heart...Nearly spoiled a Joan Baez concert. ;-) x

[mrs_overall]

Jeza - think about what it is they use when they administer lethal injections in the US when they execute criminals - potassium. It stops the heart.

[stornoway]

Thank you for all replies. Shall keep on persevering.