Diet for Patients with Nephrotic Syndrome

For the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome, their kidneys can not preserve the protein that body needs in blood and leak them into urine. For the protein loss in urine, the patients will have systemic swelling. What’s worse, some patients may have pleural effusion, ascetic fluid and even swelling in gastrointestinal tract mucous membrane. Therefore, the patients often have nausea, vomit, and poor appetite. The patients with Nephrotic Syndrome should eat more light and digestible semifluid food and avoid greasy and cold food. Besides the above diet advices, the flowing points are also important for the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome.

1. Salt: The patients with Nephrotic Syndrome should keep low salt in diet. For the general patients, the protein intake is 5~6 grams per day. However, for the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome, they should decrease their salt intake to 2~3 grams per day. In addition, they should also avoid cured food and recessive salt in foods.

2. Protein: For the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome, they loss a large amount of protein in urine, but they can not get enough nutrient supplement. Therefore, in order to guarantee body need of nutrients, they should keep proper protein intake in the early stage, but should avoid too high protein intake. Generally speaking, they should keep 1 gram protein intake per body weight in kilogram. In addition, they should improve the high quality protein intake such as fish, lean meat, and milk and so on in the total protein intake.

3. Fat: The patients with Nephrotic should limit high-fat food intake and avoid eating fatty meat and animal offal.

4. Microelement: As the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome can cause much microelement loss in urine per day such as iron, zinc, copper and so on. The patients should get them through food.


However, diet is only an assistant method for the patients with Nephritic Syndrome. What they should primarily do is to receive effective treatment as early as possible so as to decrease the renal injury to the utmost extent. If you or your loved ones are Nephrotic Syndrome patients and want a personalized diet plan, please consult us on line or email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com, we will do our best to help you.