Good Food for Kidney Failure Diet

2014-06-15 06:52

Kidney failure is a kind of kidney disease, which can be caused by both primary and secondary kidney diseases. Patients with kidney failure will have gradually reduced kidney function. Kidney failure patients need to have effective treatment to improve their kidney function, and they also need to keep a good diet, which will be helpful for their illness condition. Then what are the good foods for kidney failure diet?

For kidney failure patient, the low kidney function will make the kidneys failing to work well, so kidney failure patients will have some severe symptoms, such as proteinuria, blood urine, high blood pressure, swelling, etc. Depending on these symptoms, patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can help relieve the symptoms and protect the kidney function.

1. Low protein diet

Because of the proteinuria, kidney failure patients need to limit the protein intake, which can help reduce the kidney burden. In addition, patients also need to take high quality protein, because protein is a necessary nutrition for people. The recommend high quality protein include, egg whites, lean meat, chicken, fresh fish, etc.

2. Limit the salt intake

For kidney failure patients, too much salt intake will worsen the symptoms of high blood pressure and swelling, so they need to limit the salt intake, and they also need to limit the foods which are high in sodium.

3. Limit the potassium and phosphorus intake

The low kidney function can also cause the high potassium and high phosphorus levels in blood, which will be harmful for kidney failure patients, so patients need to limit the foods which are high in phosphorus and high in potassium.

4. Take more fresh fruits and vegetables

Since fresh fruit and vegetables include many nutrition, such as vitamins, calcium, etc, all these can help improve the immune system, protect the kidneys, which will be helpful for the illness condition of kidney failure patients. However, kidney failure patients need to choose the proper fruits and vegetables, which are suitable for their illness condition.

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