Kidney Dialysis Food Lists-Purine

2015-10-16 07:37

Uric acid kidney stones are very common stones for patients with kidney stones, and limiting intake of purine which gets decomposed into uric acid in body can be helpful to prevent kidney stones for dialysis patients. in addition, much uric acid can put more pressure on kidney, worsening kidney conditions. This time we will introduce food high, moderate, and low purine for you.

All the food is proved to contain purine, and the differences are how much they have.

High purine food

1. meat

liver, kidney, heart, brain in animal, carp, goose, shrimp, mincemeat, herring.

2. vegetables

white bean, soy bean, cowpeas, pinto bean, and lentil.

3. nuts and seed

Poppy seed

Moderate Purine food

1. meat

salmon, beef, pork, oyster, duck, turkey, lobster, rabbit, tuna, and chicken, halibut.

2. vegetables

cauliflower, spinach, mushroom, asparagus and lima bean, green peas.

3. bread and starches

wheat germ, whole grain bread and oatmeal.

Low purine food

1. vegetables

Other than the above high purine vegetables, all the ones contain low purine.

2. dairy food

low fat cheese and milk, low fat yogurt, frozen yogurt.

3. fruits

Every fruit and fruit juice have low purine level.

4. grains and starch

Cereal, pasta, white rice, cornbread and noodles.

5. nut

walnut, peanut butter and almond.

6. others

tea, egg and tapioca.

Uric acid is a waste which gets eliminated from body through urine by kidney filtering the blood. Limiting high purine food can alleviate levels of uric acid in body, which doing good to dialysis patients. If you have any doubt or need more about dialysis or kidney failure, please leave a message or contact online doctors anytime. Reply will be given very fast for you.

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