What Is The Diet For Kidney Failure Patients With Swelling And Proteinuria

2014-12-31 11:27

Foods have great effects on people’ health. Proper diet has a great help for the treatment of illness. Well, what is the diet for kidney failure patients with swelling and proteinuria?

Chronic kidney failure is a kidney lesion. With the time going on and the development of kidney disease, kidney function will decline gradually. Swelling and proteinuria is a common symptom of chronic kidney failure. Daily diet has the supplementary role of kidney failure treatment. The following will give you some dietary suggestion for swelling and proteinuria.

1. limit potassium intake

Kidney failure patients should follow a low potassium intake and avoid consuming foods with high potassium. Excess potassium tend to accumulate in the body. This will cause muscle weakness and lead to arrhythmia.

2. restrict sodium intake

Excessive sodium tends to cause water retention, which will worsen kidney failure.

3. protein limitation

Patients’ kidneys have been damaged. Too much protein intake will produce more metabolic products. However, damaged kidneys cannot expel wastes and toxins from the body timely. Under this circumstance, kidney failure is likely to deteriorate.

Chronic kidney failure patients should eat more fruits (oranges, mango, apples), vegetables (wax gourd, pumpkin, oilseed rape and cabbage) and high quality protein foods like egg white, milk and lean meat.

The above is diet introduction for kidney failure patients. We hope they are helpful for you. If you have any question, you can leave a message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. Our renal experts will make a specialized diet plan for you according to your health status.

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