What Foods Should Be Avoided From Kidney Failure Diet

2015-01-06 03:07

What foods should be avoided from kidney failure diet? Although treatment for kidney failure is more important than diet, improper diet will bring a burden on kidneys. Well, what foods should kidney failure patients avoid?

The following is the dietary tips for renal failure patients:

1. avoid plant protein

Kidney failure patients should keep far away from bean products and foods with high plant protein like mushroom, fungus, peanuts and flower seeds. This is because consuming plant protein will generate excess metabolic products, which will workload the kidneys and elevate creatinine and urea nitrogen level.

2. do not eat spicy and stimulating foods

Kidney failure patients had better not eat spicy foods like peppers, curry, Chinese prickly ash and foeniculum vulgare. Because these foods are more likely to cause high blood pressure. High blood pressure is able to cause further kidney damage. Thus, patients should avoid spicy and stimulating foods.

3. follow a low sodium diet

Chronic kidney failure patients often experience high blood pressure. A low sodium diet contributes to preventing high blood pressure. As for patients with swelling, a low salt diet is very important.

4. be careful with high potassium foods

Kidney failure patients have a large chance to experience high potassium level, which affects heart function and even causes heart arrest. Once people are diagnosed with kidney failure, the function of kidneys declines and cannot excrete excess potassium from urine. At this condition, high potassium level will occur. Therefore, as for renal failure patients, they should be careful for some high potassium foods like bananas, fungus, apricot, potato, mushrooms and nori, etc. Once high potassium occurs, patients should go to see a doctor immediately and take measurements to lower down elevated potassium levels.

Meanwhile, kidney failure patients should take positive measurements to block renal fibrosis and repair damaged kidneys. If you have any doubt, you can leave a message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com or consult our online doctor directly.

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