Diet Suggestions for IgA Nephropathy Patients

IgA nephropathy patients need to pay attention to their daily diet, because a well planed diet can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the kidneys. then what is the well planed diet for IgA nephropathy patients?

here are the diet suggestions for IgA nephropathy patients.

1. Be a vegetarian.

2. Have high-quality-protein food like lean meat, and chicken; Egg white is also ok. Avoid beans and bean products. Limit the intake of the protein or they will burden the kidney.

3. Limit your salt intake ― to help manage your blood pressure. A low-salt diet can also help minimize fluid retention and swelling.

4. Limit the foods with high potassium, such as bananas, tomatoes, oranges etc.

5. Avoid cold or it will aggravate the damage of kidney.

6. IgA Nephropathy patients can not eat spicy food, seafood, beef, mutton, crabs, garlic, onions, parsley, dog meat and wine, coffee, seasoning and other stimulating food and don’t eat animal livers.

7. Fish and Fish Oil is recommended for IgA Nephropathy


above are the diet suggestions of IgA nephropathy patients. however, since the specific illness condition of patients will be different from case to case, so patients need to take a well planed diet depending on their own illness condition.