Should Patients With High Creatinine Level Avoid Some Foods

2015-03-03 16:14

Should high creatinine level patients avoid something in their diet? Diet treatment for high creatinine patients is helpful for repairing kidney function and lightening burdens on residual kidney function. Therefore, kidney disease patients and their family members should pay attention to their diet. Specifically, the diet for high creatinine level should include the following aspects:

1. salt restriction

Generally speaking, although patients of renal insufficiency compensatory period have high serum creatinine level and experience some mild medical conditions, pathology is mild injury. Therefore, salt intake can be consumed according to high blood pressure and swelling. Low salt or no salt is given for patients.

2. protein supply

To prevent continuous deterioration of kidney function, you should follow a low but high quality protein intake.

3. vitamin intake

Kidney failure patients should choose rich vitamin A, vitamin B2, Vitamin C foods. If a person of kidney insufficiency only has high creatinine level but has symptoms like less urine and swelling, patients have no need to avoid salt and water. It is proper for them to follow a low sodium diet. If patients have severe edema, high blood pressure and heart failure, they should control salt intake strictly.

Aside from diet, high creatinine patients also need to avoid cigarette and liquor. Cigarette and liquor will do damages on kidneys and blood vessels. Drinking has great damages on blood vessels of kidneys and worsens arteriolar nephrosclerosis. People with normal kidney function or kidney insufficiency should all avoid cigarette and liquor so as to avoid damages on kidneys.

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