Announcements for Lupus Nephritis Patients’ Diet

Do you know why the recurrence rate of Lupus Nephritis is higher? Why does Lupus Nephritis develop into Uremia in a short time? The reason is irregular diet of patients with Lupus Nephritis. Diet is the most common “work” for human beings, which is necessary for patients with LN in daily life. As for patients with LN, dietary principle is very important, which benefits treatment effects.

Announcements for LN patients’ diet:

Unreasonable diet for patients with LN

The Food which can strengthen the light sensitization should be forbidden (or a little) for patients with LN, such as fig, milk vetch, rape, yellow bullacta, celery and so on. Mushrooms (mushroom and lentinus edodes), food dye and tobacco can induce potential functions of systemic lupus erythematosus, which should be forbidden to eat (or a little).

Patients with LN should be provided with high protein diet:

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, who are also accompanied with renal damage, lose a large number of proteins from urine, causing hypoproteinemia. Therefore, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus should be supplied with abundant proteins of high quality, such as milk, bean products, egg, lean and fish.

Low fat diet is reasonable for patients with LN:

Food, which is delicate and digestible, is suitable for patients with LN due to worse digestion function. Greasy food with much fat is not beneficial.

Low sugar diet is beneficial to patients with LN:

Patients with LN always take glucocorticoid which is easy to induce steroid diabetes and cushing’s syndrome. Therefore, the appetite should be limited appropriately. The food with high sugar should be avoided as much as possible.

Low salt diet is reasonable for patients with LN:

Patients who are accompanied with renal damage or cortical hormone are easy to be attacked by edema because of the existence of water and sodium retention, resulting in the limit of the intake of salt.

Patients with LN should be provided with abundant calcium:

In order to prevent osteoporosis caused by glucocorticoid, greenstuff and fruit which are full of vitamin should be eaten more.


The above are announcements for LN patients. In a word, LN can be treated effectively. It is unnecessary for patients to worry about it. Besides normal drugs given by doctors, daily care and diet aftercare are necessary in daily life, which is beneficial to the control of LN.