What Kind of Foods Should High Creatinine Patients Eat

2016-11-05 02:47

For PKD(Polycystic Kidney Disease) patients, that foods they take everyday have a great influence to them. High creatinine level shows that how much patients’ kidney functions left and how much toxins and wastes in blood. Diet patients take in daily life can help to control the condition. What kind of foods is good for high creatinine kidney disease patients?

Do not eat too much read meat

Eat too much red meat easy to cause increasing of creatinine level. So these patients who have high creatinine level should not take too much red meat. Eat less red meat can help to reduce the toxins and wastes in blood, and also reduce the burden on kidney.

Taking a low salt diet

Superfluous salt is easy to cause retain fluids in body, it will increase blood pressure and also cause a further damage on kidney. Thus, for these high creatinine level patients, they had better to reduce the intake of salt. What’s more, they should also take less foods rich in sodium, such as ham, deli meat, sausage, and so on. Avoid these food will much more helpful for controlling high creatinine level. Taking a low salt diet is also do more good for their recovery.

Controlling the intake of protein

Protein can be found in many foods, like meat, poultry, beans, grains, and many kinds of vegetables. Too much protein will increase much burden in kidney and more likely to cause proteinuria, and then creatinine level goes up. Of course, it not means patients can not take protein food at all. Because many functions of body need the support of protein. So patients can take a reasonable quantities of high quality protein such as lean meat, fish, milk and so on.

Taking a low potassium diet

PKD patients have high creatinine meas that their kidney have been impaired and don;t have a healthy kidney function any more. So the impaired kidney can not eliminate the extra potassium in body. And then high blood level of potassium appears. The symptom is very dangerous for patients which is easy to cause an irregulary heartbeat or muscle weakness. For the reasons, patients should take less potassium in each diet.

A healthy diet is very important for the PKD patients who have high creatinine level, and this is based on a good knowledge about diet. If you want to learn about diet on kidney disease, please leave a message below or chat with our online doctor.

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