Diet Information for Chronic Kidney Disease

Scientific diet is one of the necessary ways to treat chronic kidney disease, because scientific diet can relieve symptoms, reduce damage and improve the live level of the patients.
1. Low-protein diet in CKD
Reduce the content of the protein can improve the azotemia,relieve damages to kidney caused by proteinuria. It is also beneficial to deduce phosphorus in blood and relieve acidosis, because with the ingestion of the protein, some phosphorus and other inorganic acid ion can also come in. Generally speaking,0.6kg protein intake can satisfy people’s physiological need, so chronic kidney patients need to supply 30-60g protein. How to select protein food? patients need to give first place to fish, lean meat, chicken and milk, as far as possible to reduce food containing vegetable protein, for example peanut soybean and bean products, because vegetable protein has much non-essential amino acid. It is bad to ingest too much protein, as high protein intake can worsen proteinuria symptom.
 2.Caloric intake in Chronic Kidney Disease
Ingesting enough carbohydrate helps to offer enough heat which can help to reduce protein consumption and thus improve azotemia. It also can take full advantage of amino acid with the low protein dietary. 125.6J/kg of heat need to be offered to our body through staple food everyday. The main supplying food is rice wheat and corn that contain enough carbohydrate. In addition, sweet potato, potato, apple, lotus root also have abundant carbohydrate, we can serve as replenish food, satisfy our hunger between the meal.
3. High vitamin diet for CKD patients
chronic kidney patients often has vitamin deficiency, on one hand that is related to dietary restriction, on the other hand, it is related to disease supersession. So patients need to gain enough vitamin, especially vitamin B, vitamin C, folic acid and so on. Fruit and vegetable have abundant vitamin and common fruits and vegetables include tomato, rape, chives, oranges, hawthorn and so on, patients need to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in daily life.
The above is the introduction about diet for Chronic Kidney Disease. If you are not clearly about it, please feel free to consult us and we will try our best to help you.