In common condition, patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) should not limit diet extremely. The important principle of diet adjustment is to enjoy foods in the allowing condition. It is often seen that some diseases and symptoms don’t get better after diet limit like low salt and low protein. Therefore, patients should be cautious about diet limit to avoid the opposite effects.
Experts of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital point out that：some diseases of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) should be paid much attention to the diet adjustment.
1. Acute Nephritis with severe edema - Swelling and Kidney Disease
Because of oliguria, high blood pressure, Azotemia, patients should take in low salt, low protein diet, and limit water intake. When edema fades away, blood pressure becomes normal, and Azotemia disappears, patients can return to take the normal diet.
2. Nephrotic Syndrome
Patients with Nephrotic Syndrome should take notice of the intake of water and sodium when they suffer from edema. Due to amounts of lost protein in the urine leading to Hypoalbuminema, patients should have more high quality protein foods like milk, eggs, lean meat with 100g daily intake. At the same time, because of HLP(hyperlipidaemia), patients also limit the foods containing fat and cholesterol.
3. Diabetic Nephropathy
Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should follow the principles of diet limit as those with Diabetes. Diet adjustment is important during the treatment of diabetes. Patients with light diabetes can decrease blood sugar by diet adjustment. But for patients with Diabetic Nephropathy, the first step they should do is to treat primary disease—Diabetes. The diet principles are to limit such foods containing high sugar, to take more high quality protein, not to eat animal fat but to cook with plant oil.
In a word, experts of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, patients with above Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)s should take diet under the guidance of doctors.
