PKD Patients Should Pay Attention to Diet and Nutrition in Life

2015-09-18 07:18

Patients with PKD need to have a planned diet to help control high blood pressure, and do good to heart and kidney. Here we will introduce diet and nutrition PKD patients should have in daily life, hoping useful and helpful for you. Please see the following:

1. have a low fat, cholesterol diet

2. get some milk with low fat, fish, nuts and egg white

3. eat low sugar food and drink low sugar drinks

4. low sodium or no salt

5. eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains

The above diet can help manage blood pressure well, preventing high blood pressure in PKD patients. Besides, PKD patients also need have a low phosphorus, potassium diet in daily life, which can help improve kidney function by alleviating kidney burdens.

Potassium is rich in food: banana, orange, potato, tomato.

Low potassium food：apple, peach, carrot, green bean.

Phosphorus is rich in food: most of kinds of meat, fish, dairy products, beans, nuts.

Low phosphorus food: bread, pasta, rice, corn, rice cereal, soda.

For patients with kidney disease and hypertension, sodium amount need to be controlled in 2300 mg per day. What is more, PKD patients should have proper protein in life, eat more high quality protein, and have less food which contains ordinary protein. Vitamins are beneficial for PKD patients, and they can also have some vitamin supplement and iron supplement if anemia occurs on them.

It is vital for PKD patients to know what can be eaten or not in daily life, and you are highly suggested to communicate with doctor or dietitian in detail to make a healthy diet plan according to your conditions. More information, or any question, please leave a message or contact our online doctors anytime. Reply will be given very soon.

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