Diet Plan for People with Kidney Failure

People with Kidney Failure are suggested to pay special attention to the diet and avoid the burden to the body:

a) Protein limitation: for patients with no dialysis, as the kidney can not discharge the waste of protein metabolism, it will aggravate the condition; for patients have already started doing dialysis, the point is, there will loss of protein when doing dialysis, so they should maintain the body needs according to the nutritionist's suggestion.
Therefore, the Kidney Failure patients should limit the intake of protein. it is advisable to take the food with high protein, such as milk, meat to supply the body need.

b) Limit the intake of sodium.
Because salt is high in sodium, if there stored too much sodium in the body of Renal Failure patients, it will result in hyperhydropoxis, which will lead to cardiopulmonary failure or the aggravation of Renal Failure. But do not use low sodium salt, because of high-potassium.

c) Limit the intake of potassium. The accumulated potassium in vivo will result in muscle weakness, or even worse, it can cause arrhythmia and then heart failure. Such as banana, dried fruit, beef, pork, sardine, soybean paste, lettuce etc. The patients can eat the food with rich magnesium, such as dark green vegetable and chocolate etc.

d) Limit the intake of phosphorus. As the excessive phosphorus in vivo will cause the loss of calcium, so doctors will control the phosphorus content in blood with the assist of medicine, in case of osteoporosis happens.

e) Water intake. If too much water is taken, there will be edema or heart failure when kidneys can’t discharge it. So it is very important to control the intake of water. Doctors will suggest the acceptable daily intake by the urine volume or dialyzed water volume of individual patient, usually the water intake should be the urine volume of the day before plus 500-750c.

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