Sodium and Kidney Failure: How to Spice up Cooking

2015-09-14 11:45

Sodium is a kind of minerals, which can be found in most of food, especially in salt. Sodium is necessary for our body, but it is very harmful to ingest much sodium, because retention of fluids will be caused and result in swelling. In addition, high blood pressure can be led to with much sodium intake.

On general occasions, it is suggested that no more than 1500-2000mg of sodium can be eaten a day. But for patients with kidney failure, they need to limit intake of sodium strictly with advice of doctors and dietitians.

How to lower intake of sodium in daily life for kidney failure patients?

1. use herbs or spices low in sodium instead of salt.

2. it is necessary to look at how much sodium food contain before you buy it.

3. it is better to get away from canned, processed and frozen food.

4. some substitutes for salt are containing much potassium, which should be noticed to avoid these ones.

5. if going to restaurants, order dishes with no salt, and you can add some spice by your self.

You should know clear about how much salt you can take per day with doctors’ help, then you should pay attention to sodium amount of food on shopping shelves, and make a good choice when you buy food.

Some tips for sodium listed on food:

Sodium Free means only a trivial amount of sodium per serving.

Very Low Sodium indicates less than 35 mg per serving.

Low Sodium shows less than 140 mg per serving.

Reduced Sodium means sodium in this food gets reduced by 25%.

Light or Lite in Sodium shows sodium in this food is reduced by more than 50%.

The following are high in sodium in our daily life, and patients with kidney failure should avoid or limit: banana, corn, potato, tomato sauce, beef, salt fish, bread, chips…..

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