What Is a Kidney Failure Diet

2014-08-26 08:05

What is a kidney failure diet? This should be a common question for all the kidney failure patients. As we know, kidney failure refers to gradually reduction of kidney function, and patients need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect their kidney function.

What is the kidney failure diet?

A kidney failure diet should limit the protein and phosphorus intake in daily diet, and patients should also limit the calcium, sodium and potassium intake. A well planed kidney failure diet can help reduce the amount of waste in body, which can help reduce the kidney burden and make the kidneys work better, and this can help slow down the progression of kidney failure. And the diet should be changed over time, because the own illness condition of patients will also be changed, so patients need to change their diet.

What kind of changes do kidney failure patients need to make on a kidney-friendly diet?

1. Patients may need to limit the amount of protein in take, which can help reduce the kidney burden. The specific amount of protein intake should depend on their own illness condition of kidney failure patients. And they need to take the high quality protein.

2. Kidney failure patients should also limit the phosphorus intake. For kidney failure patients, the kidneys will fail to work well, which will cause the high phosphorus level in blood, and the high phosphorus level in blood will cause the bone problems for kidney failure patients. So patients need to limit the phosphorus intake in their daily diet.

3. For most kidney failure patients, they will have the high blood pressure, and the unwell controlled high blood pressure will cause further damage to kidneys, so patients also need to limit the sodium intake, which will help prevent the high blood pressure.

4. Patients also need to limit the potassium level when they suffer from high potassium level in blood, which can help reduce the kidney burden, and prevent the heart diseases.

5. Patients also need to limit the fluid intake if they have severe swelling in body, which can help protect the kidney function, and prevent shortness of breath.

What are the risks if you don’t follow a well planed diet in kidney failure?

From above, we can know the diet is very important for kidney failure patients, and patients need to take some time to learn to follow a kidney-friendly diet. If patients don’t take enough foods in their daily diet, they may not get the calories, protein and other nutrients that their body needs, and patients will lose weight. If patients don’t follow a well planed diet, the kidneys will work harder, and it will worsen the illness condition, which will increase the progression of kidney failure.

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