Can Dialysis Patients Eat Oatmeal

2015-01-31 01:45

Can dialysis patients eat oatmeal? Dialysis is a replacement treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys lost most of their functions. For dialysis patients, they need to keep a good diet, which will be helpful for their illness condition. So patients will wonder whether they can take oatmeal with their dialysis.

First, let’s get the benefits of eating oatmeal for dialysis patients.

1. Lower high cholesterol level

Taking oatmeal can help lower high cholesterol level, which can help prevent cardiovascular diseases.

2. Lower high blood sugar and losing weight

Eating oatmeal can also lower high blood sugar and lose weight, which will be good for dialysis patients with diabetes.

3. Relieve constipation

Constipation is a common symptom for dialysis patients, which can be caused by many factors, and the constipation will affect the life quality of patients. Since eating oatmeal can help relieve the constipation, so it will be good for dialysis patients.

4. Improve blood circulation

Taking oatmeal can also help improve the blood circulation, which will be helpful for dialysis patients.

In addition, there are also some other benefits of taking oatmeal, such as strengthen bones, prevent anemia, etc. However, since the specific illness condition will be different from case to case, so CKD patients need to take it depending on their own illness condition.

Here are the precaution for dialysis patients to eat oatmeal.

1. Since taking oatmeal will gain the fluid intake, so dialysis patients need to take proper amount of oatmeal.

2. Oatmeal is also high in phosphorus, which will be bad for dialysis patients with high phosphorus level. So patients need to limit the oatmeal intake.

If you want to know whether you can eat oatmeal or how much oatmeal you can take, you can send your recent test reports to chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com. Our experts will help analysis your illness condition and give you some professional suggestions.

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