How Diet Can Help for Dialysis Patients

How diet can help for dialysis patients? Dialysis is a replacement and life-saving treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys lost most of their kidney functions. For dialysis patients, they also need to keep a well planed diet, which can be beneficial for their disease.

Then how diet can help for dialysis patients?

1. Fluid

Dialysis patients are often recommended to limit the fluid intake, because extra fluid intake can raise their blood pressure and make the heart work harder, and it can also increase the stress of dialysis treatment. So patients need to follow the advice of their doctors to take right amount of fluid directly.

2. Potassium

Potassium can affect how steadily the heart beats, so patients need to limit the potassium intake and avoid high potassium level in blood. To control potassium levels in your blood, avoid foods like oranges, bananas, tomatoes, potatoes, and dried fruits.

3. Phosphorus

The phosphorus can weaken the bones and make skin itching if dialysis patients have high phosphorus level in blood, so patients need to limit the foods high in phosphorus. Foods like milk and cheese, dried beans, peas, colas, nuts, and peanut butter are high in phosphorus and should be avoided.

4. Salt

Too much salt intake or high sodium foods intake will increase your thirsty and make patients drink more water, which can increase the heart burden and the stress of dialysis. So patients also need to limit the salt intake, which can be beneficial for them.

5. Protein

Since there will be loss of protein during dialysis, and protein is an very necessary nutrition for patients, so patients may need to take more protein in their daily diet. The recommended amount of protein for dialysis patients is 1.2 mg/d/kg body weight, and patients should take the high quality protein.

Above are some of the diet that can be helpful for dialysis patients. If you still have any questions after reading, you can consult online doctor, or you can also leave a message below, we will contact you soon.

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