Best Diet to Increase Kidney Function

2014-04-01 06:57

Do you know what are the best foods for kidney failure patients to improve their kidney function? Kidney failure is a common kidney disease with gradually reduced kidney function, so patients often want to find the treatment and certain diet which can help improve their kidney function. Here we will tell you the best foods to increase kidney function.

1. Fluid

For kidney failure patients who don’t have severe swelling or high blood pressure, they can take more fluid, such as water, fruit juices, ginger ale or tea, which can help increase the urine output, and remove more toxins and wastes from blood into urine. If your urine is light colored after you go to the bathroom, it means you get enough fluid.

2. Fruits and vegetables

Fresh fruits and vegetables are good choice for patients to improve their kidney function. But patients need to choose the right fruits and vegetables which are beneficial for their illness. They also need to limit the high potassium and high phosphorus fruits and vegetables, which will be helpful for their kidney disease.

3. Low-potassium foods

Since kidney failure patients often suffer from high potassium level because of the low kidney function, and high potassium level in blood will cause some severe complications such as heart attack, heart failure or even death. So patients need to keep a low-potassium level diet which can help prevent the severe complications.

4. Iron-rich foods

For kidney failure patients, because of the low kidney function, they may have the complication of anemia, which means low hemoglobin level and lack of iron in blood. So patients are often recommended to take more iron-rich foods, but they need to take proper amount of iron foods depending on their illness condition. Because too much iron intake will also cause some side effects for patients.

Above are the best foods to increase kidney function for kidney failure patients, and we hope this will be helpful for all the kidney failure patients. If you still have some questions, you can leave a message below, we will answer you as soon as possible.

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