Diet Recommendations for People with Kidney Failure

2014-03-06 11:30

Kidney failure is a kind of kidney disease with the kidney function gradually reduced, and diet plays an important role in the life of kidney failure patients. So kidney failure patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. Here are some diet recommendations for people with kidney failure, and I hope this will benefit more kidney failure patients.

1. Keep a low protein diet

For kidney failure patients, they often have the symptoms of proteinuria, which means loss of protein in urine. So patients need to limit their protein intake, which can help reduce the loss of protein in urine. With different stage of kidney failure, the amount of protein intake will be different as well, so patients need to follow the advices of their doctors to take proper amount of protein depending on their illness condition.

2. Limit the fluid and salt intake

Kidney failure patients also need to limit their fluid and salt intake due to their high blood pressure and swelling. High blood pressure and swelling are the two common symptoms for kidney failure patients, which are mainly caused by the reduced kidney function.

3. Limit the potassium and phosphorus intake

Kidney failure patients also need to limit their potassium and phosphorus intake in their daily life, because the reduced kidney function will easily cause high potassium level and high phosphorus level in blood, which will make further damage to kidneys and cause some other complications such heart problems and bone problems. In this aspect, kidney failure patients need to avoid the food, fruits or vegetables which are high in potassium or phosphorus.

4. Supply enough nutrition

Kidney failure patients also need to supply enough nutrition such as vitamins, because the restriction of diet will make patients lack of nutrition, which will cause poor immune system. So kidney failure patients need to supply enough vitamins, which can help improve the immune system, and this will help prevent the further damage to kidneys.

Above are the diet recommendations for people with kidney failure, which will be helpful for all the kidney failure patients. Besides, since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so kidney failure patients need to ask their doctors to make a specific diet plan depending on their illness condition. If you want to get your own receipt for your kidney failure, you can leave a message below, we will answer you within 24 hours.

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