Nutrition for Children with Kidney Failure

2015-09-14 06:59

For children with kidney failure, they are very likely to develop weight gain and slower growth. Hence, it is not suggested for children with kidney failure to have a restricted diet in daily life, but when restrict diet is very necessary for them, they should follow it. Parents of children with kidney failure need to consider well growing of children and kidney health together. Therefore, Nutrition for children with kidney failure is very important and necessary.

Parents should talk with doctors and dietitians in detail to set up a planned diet which can supply nutrition for children.
In general, the below should be taken into consideration:

1. What condition is kidney of children with kidney failure? How serious symptoms of kidney failure are?

2. Have children been on dialysis or not? If yes, which one is it, HD or PD.

3. Do they get kidney transplant?

For daily diet, parents of children with kidney failure should pay attention to the below elements: salt or sodium, phosphorus, potassium, protein, water and fluids, calories. It is better to control these within restricted amount. For protein, they are suggested to have high quality protein like fish, milk, red meat and egg white, because high quality protein produces few wastes in body and is easy to decompose. Vitamins and minerals are necessary for body of children with kidney failure, and they can eat some vegetables or fruits which are low in phosphorus and potassium. In addition, it is also a good option to get some vitamins and minerals supplement in daily life to assure nutrition of children.

For children on dialysis, they should get a little more protein and calories in diet to supply the loss on dialysis. if children have done a kidney transplant and new kidney goes well, salty food needs to be limited or avoided in the early few weeks after transplant. Everything goes back to normal after new kidney agrees with children. More information or any question, welcome to leave us a message or contact our online doctors anytime you like. Reply will be given very fast in detail for you.

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