What Should IgA Nephropathy Patients Eat?

For IgA patients with normal kidney function, daily diet can be normal without limit, just low salt and high quality protein. But when progressive decline of renal function appears or the disease develops into Renal Failure or Uremia, the diet should be limited according to the patient’s specific condition.

First, limit of protein intake. If the patients have too much protein, it will produce too much nitrogen waste after metabolism, which will load the kidney. If the patients also have little urine, these wastes can’t be excreted out of the body, it will accumulate in the body, causing a series of symptoms of poisoning. Therefore, in the diet, the patients should avoid foods rich in protein, such as meat, eggs and bean products. When the disease condition improves, the patients can increase protein intake properly.

Second, limit of salt and water. The patients with serious edema, hypertension, oliguria should have salt-free diet. And daily water intake shouldn’t be more than 800 to 1200 liters. At the same time, don’t eat pickled vegetables, pickles, salted egg, fermented bean curd, hot pickled mustard tuber that are rich in sodium. When swelling reduces, urine volume increases, the patients can have low salt diet, about 2 to 3 grams every day.

Third, the patients should eat light foods with diuretic and eliminating swelling effect, such as carp, crucian carp, ewe's milk, watermelon, white gourd, green bean, red bean and so on. The boiled water with watermelon rind has good diuretic effect.

Fourth, the patients should eat foods rich in vitamins, such as fresh vegetables and fruits, which can not only supply a variety of vitamins, but also it can improve the recovery of renal function.

It should be noted that IgA Nephropathy patients should not eat eggs. Due to declined renal function and metabolism, the toxins in the body can’t be expelled out of the body. If the patients eat eggs, it will definitely increase the metabolic products, urea. Increased urea will aggravate the disease condition. Therefore, at the severe stage of the disease, the patient should avoid eggs and when the condition is stable, they can eat less.

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