Diet Suggestions for Nephrotic Syndrome Patients

What should be the diet for nephrotic syndrome patients? as we know, nephrotis syndrome patients need to keep a well planed diet, which can help reduce kidney burden and protect their kidney function, and a good diet can help make a good prognosis for patients.

Here are some diet suggestions for nephrotic syndrome patients.

1. Light-based diet:

Eat less fat, greasy food, wine and eat spicy foods, edible vegetables, fruits, food and other light flow easily digestible food and so on.

2. The high-protein diet intake:

Such as fresh eggs, milk, fresh lean meat, fish and so on. Normal renal function may be given the normal amount of daily 1.0g / kg is not too high, so as not to increase the burden of kidney; renal insufficiency, low-protein diet intake should be.

3. High vitamin intake:

Nephrotic syndrome, there is lack of the vitamin, which is mainly concerned with dietary restrictions. So to strengthen the high vitamin intake, such as fruits and vegetables, such as tomatoes, rape, chives, citrus, hawthorn all contain high vitamin.

4. Sodium, water intake:

Edema should be into the low-salt diet to avoid increased edema, generally no more than 2g daily amount of salt is appropriate, but avoid long-term unreasonable avoid salt. Disable preserved foods, use less MSG and food base. Edema, hypertension, heart failure, should eat less salt or salt-free diet.


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How Much Protein Should Dialysis Patients Eat

Protein is an necessary nutrition for people's health. however, for kidney disease patients, because of the loss of potein in urine, patients need to limit the protein intake. but for dialysis patients, the protein intake will be different from CKD patients who are not on dialysis. in this article, we will talk about how much protein should dialysis patients eat.

The amount of protein you need when you are on dialysis depends on your size, your nutritional status and the type of dialysis treatments you receive. Most people on dialysis need to eat at least 6 to 9 ounces of good-quality protein each day.

Estimating how much protein to eat

Here are some examples of protein foods and how many ounces of protein they provide.

- Beef steak (4 ounces)

- Chicken drumstick (2 ounces)

- Egg (one = 1 ounce)

- Egg whites (two = 1 ounce)

- Fish fillet (3 ounces)

- Half chicken breast (3 ounces)

- Hamburger patty (3 ounces)

- Pork chop (3 ounces)

- Shrimp (18 to 20 medium = 3 ounces)

- Soy burger (2 to 3 ounces)

Another way to estimate protein is using your hand as a guide. The size of the palm of your hand is approximately 3 ounces. The size of your thumb is about 1 ounce.


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