Diabetic Diet for Dialysis Patients

2015-11-06 11:26

People with diabetes is very likely to develop kidney failure because high sugar level can do harm to small blood vessels in kidney, causing kidney damage. When kidney failure progresses, end stage kidney failure can be resulted in. in this case, dialysis is always recommended for patients to help kidney filtering blood to remove wastes and fluid. For diabetes people on dialysis, they should notice daily diet very much, which can help alleviate disease.

Low potassium

Low potassium is needed for dialysis people, much potassium can not be removed from body through kidney function. And potassium can make heart stop working and cause heart attack, which is very life-threatening for people. In addition, salt substitutes should be avoided, because they usually have much potassium.

Low phosphorus

Much phosphorus in blood can break balance of calcium and phosphorus in body, making calcium in bones get out to maintain this balance. In this way, bone disease can happen on people.

Low sugar

It is necessary and vital for patients with diabetes to avoid sugar or limit it as can as possible in diet.

Low sodium

It is very necessary to have a low salt or sodium diet, much sodium makes blood pressure get high and lead to swelling in body, which is bad for kidney function.

More protein

It is needed that patients with dialysis should have a little more protein than before dialysis, this is because when filtering the blood, dialysis can make much protein get removed, which may cause malnutrition for people. Hence, patients with dialysis should have more high quality protein food like fish and egg white, and a little more ordinary protein food than before dialysis.

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