Foods to Avoid in Kidney Failure

What foods to avoid with Kidney Failure? We must be especially careful about our daily diet when our kidneys fail to work properly, because what we eat may cause direct damage on our kidney. Well, what foods to avoid in kidney failure? To help more kidney failure patients arrange a good diet, here we will introduce the dietary principles.
Foods to avoid and eat in kidney failure:
1. First of all, as kidney failure is always manifested as proteinuria, patients who are affected by this illness should limit protein intake to 0.2 grams per kilogram of body weight per day if they have not started dialysis.However, if they are on dialysis, they need to increase their protein intake to 1.2 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. They can eat some high quality protein like egg white, lean meat, fish and milk. Besides, try to avoid beans and bean products.
2. Second, avoid sated foods like slated eggs and processed foods, as they are high in sodium. Salt is a good source for sodium, but for kidney failure patients, high salt foods not only increase their blood pressure, also cause cause further retention of water and sodium. Besides, if they have swelling, they also need to limit fluid intake.
3. High potassium foods like banana, avocado, white mushroo and dried apricots need to be avoided if lab tests show elevated potassium in blood. High potassium level is harmful for our heart and this will increase kidney failure patients' risk for heart failure.
4. High phosphorus foods are also a taboo for kidney failure patients. When phosphorus level in blood is higher than the reference range, there will be difficuties for our body to ingest enough calcium.
Lastly, what foods to avoid and eat for kidney failure patients is closely based on their specific illness condition. Therefore, if you want to a personalized diet plan, you can contact me directly and I am glad and ready to help anyone with kidney problem.