Best Diet for Kidney Failure Patients

2014-03-22 06:51

Do you know what is the best diet for people with kidney failure? Since diet plays an important role in kidney failure patients, so more and more kidney failure patients want to get the best diet for their illness condition.

There are some benefits for kidney failure patients to keep a kidney-friendly diet:

1. To maintain good nutritional status

2. Slow down the progression of kidney failure

3. Prevent and alleviate the metabolic disorders caused by kidney failure

4. To delay the time of dialysis or reduce the dialysis times if people has already started dialysis

In order to reach these purposes, kidney failure patients need to follow the dietary principles as below:

1. Limit the fluid intake

If the discharge of urine is reduced, it means the excess fluid will build up in body, which may cause swelling, high blood pressure or even pulmonary edema. In this condition, patients need to limit their fluid intake strictly, usually, the amount of fluid intake is 24 hours’ urine amount and add 500 cc.

2. High quality and low protein diet

Kidney failure patients also need to keep a high quality protein intake, which means the protein is rich in essential amino-acid, which can make less wastes in body and reduce the kidney burden. Besides, patients need to take proper amount of protein depending on their illness condition.

3. Low salt diet

About 80% kidney failure patients will have high blood pressure. Because of the kidney dysfunction, the sodium in blood cant be excreted effectively, which will cause high blood pressure, swelling, ascites, pulmonary edema, and this will increase the burden of heat, and cause heart failure. Therefore, kidney failure patients need to limit their salt intake in their daily life, they also need to limit the high sodium foods.

4. Limit potassium intake

When people suffer from low kidney function, the excess potassium will build up in blood. And the high potassium level will cause severe cardiac conduction and abnormal contraction, and even cause death for people. So patient need to limit the potassium intake in their daily life.

5. Limit phosphorus intake

As we know, phosphorus in blood has the function of strengthen bones. However, when the kidneys fail to work normally, it will cause high phosphorus level in blood, which will cause skin itching and bone problems. So patients also need to limit the phosphorus intake.

6. Supply calories

Kidney failure patients need to supple enough carbohydrate and fat, which can ensure that there are enough calories to consumption for people and help reduce the consumption of protein. All these can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function.

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