The Misunderstanding of Diet for Patients with Renal Failure

For patients with Chronic Renal Failure, proper diet is good for relieving the retention of metabolism and putting off the disease's further development. However, there are some misunderstanding of diet as follows:

One,misunderstanding that less intake of water and never taking in salt are beneficial to treatment:many patients pay more attention to the water's intake and dare not eat salt. However, the strict intake of water and salt is essential for those patients who have Hypertension, edema, oliguria, which helps to relive the retention of water and salt, edema and Hypertension. Not all patients should restrict the intake of water and salt. For example, if patients don't have those conditions mentioned above, they need not restrict with water and salt. Further more, if they do have those symptoms such as high blood pressure, edema, oliguria, patients should take a low-salt diet and still have to properly restrict the intake of water or salt, which is made by doctor according to their conditions.

Two, misunderstanding that vegetarian diet can relieve renal burden.The accumulation of toxin in body such as urea and creatinine, which is the metabolin of protein, can cause damage to the body. As a result, some patients dare not eat animal protein and become a vegetarian because they think that vegetarian diet doesn't contain protein. In fact, both animal food and vegetarian diet contain protein, but the protein contained in vegetarian diet is less than that in animal protein. Besides, the protein in vegetarian diet is less used by the body , which will be metabolized into many waste products and it is not suitable for the patients. So they should take in more animal protein such as milk and egg, which contains more essential amino acid, and restricts the intake of protein containing in vegetarian diet. In a word, patients should make it clear that a high quality low-protein diet doesn't mean vegetarian diet and a vegetarian diet can not relieve renal burden.

Three, misunderstanding that nestiatria can protect renal function:when patients pay attention to a high quality low-protein diet, they should also make sure the body supplied with enough energy, which not only supplies energy but also reduces the metabolism of endogenous protein and relives Azotemia. But some patients misunderstand about animal protein and take nestiatria. Consequently, they are usually malnutrition because of their excessive restriction of stable food and animal protein. Moreover , it will cause body's resistance to decline and concurrent infection, which will aggravate the condition and lead to renal function's get worse.


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