Diet for Uremia Patients

The diet of uremia patients can closely affect the life quality, and nutriture of uremia patients. It is closely related to the prognosis and even the morbidity of uremia patients. Therefore, uremia patients have to pay more attention to their diet.

1. low-protein diet based on azotemia and uremia. patients should mainly be dominated by low-protein diet, and the protein is necessary to contain essential amino acids for animal protein-based, such as milk, eggs, fish, lean meat and so on. The daily protein intake is 20 grams. This will not only ensure the body's supply of essential amino acids, but also enable the body in the case of low-protein supply of the use of non-protein nitrogen synthesis of non-essential amino acids, thereby reducing azotemia.

2. eating food rich in vitamins and easy to digest and contain plenty of vitamins, especially vitamin B, C, D. Rough foods to avoid mechanical injury of the digestive tract caused by gastrointestinal bleeding. Is still a good appetite in patients with azotemia, heat should not be less than 35 cards per kilogram of body weight, but can only be considered in patients with uremia determined appetite. If the number of patients with urine, edema was not obvious, generally do not limit the amount of drinking water.

3. replenish water, salt uremic patients susceptible to dehydration and hyponatremia, especially long-term loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, especially in patients. When it happens, must be promptly added. However, uremic patients should pay attention to water, sodium tolerance characteristics of poor supplement can not be excessive, so as to avoid hypernatremia or water intoxication.

4. pay attention to calcium, potassium uremic serum potassium in patients with moderate to low, can easily occur after the use of diuretics hypokalemia, when to eat plenty of fresh fruit and potassium chloride. Calcium is often low in patients with uremia can eat plenty of high-calcium foods such as fish, shrimp, meat and bone soup.

These are some pieces of advices for uremia patients. As the renal function of uremia patients is not normal, uremia patients have to take care of their diet. For the substances can stay in patients’ body—called retention, it will not only make the patients suffer but also aggravate the patients’ condition.

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