Kidney Disease Diet

Diet for Kidney Disease (Dialysis Diet)

The operations of kidneys are artificially carried out by the process of Dialysis when the original kidney fails, obviously dialysis cannot replace a kidney-(A natural source) Patients on dialysis will have to gradually change their diet. Diet schedule in the initial state of kidney failure is subjected to application of dialysis and transplants. Well improvement of health can start at any point of time by avoiding smoking, intake of healthy food that is food rich in proteins and energy, regular exercises and finally these habits might definitely help in losing weight if the patient is obese.

Obesity is also one of the major reasons for kidney failure, and can cause physical problems for people on dialysis. Obese people with fat arms can have fussy problems with entrance for haemodialysis.

Iron:

Mostly people suffering from kidney failure also suffer from lack of iron and this is called as Anaemia. Once the patient has found to have iron levels below the average and is confirmed to be an anemic he/she has to regulate the diet. Example Bittergourd, spinach and dates are all iron rich foods.

Phosphate and Calcium:

Patients with Kidney troubles or dysfunctions have high amount of blood calcium levels and lower levels of blood phosphate concentrations. Since the phosphate and calcium are both very important minerals in the formation of bones and maintaining their health, it becomes necessary to maintain the levels through proper dietary supplementation.

Calcium rich foods like milk and milk products may be avoided. Phosphate is found in dates, fruits and also in vegetables. Moderation of intake of these items in food may be advised. Additionally a phosphate binder may be needed to be taken along with meals, to reduce the amount of the phosphates absorbed from the diet.

Potassium:

Potassium is highly important in maintaining optimum heart function and health. High levels of Potassium can literally cause a heart failure and low levels are also equally dangerous with resulting cardiac arrhythmias. The patients undergoing haemodialysis need to avoid high potassium foods like chocolate and also certain potassium rich foods like bananas etc. this restriction applies only to Haemodialysis patients, whereas peritoneal dialysis patients may not require such a dietary control.

Protein

Protein is higly essential and necessary for effective muscle growth and also in maintaining many physiological processes of the body. It also helps in tissue repair and is an important constituent of blood. The patients with Kidney disease have a problem with effective excretion of urea which is a by product of protein digestion. So it becomes very necessary to limit the protein intake by these patients. But since protein cannot be altogether avoided, special protein supplements need to be given to these patients.

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