Q:
I would like a good diet to lower creatinine. It is 143. Can you help me?
A:
I got your message left on our website. You talked about your kidney problem. This is specialized kidney disease hospital. And hope the food list below can help you:
1. Low potassium
High potassium content of foods should be forbidden; all kinds of edible fungi, potato, Chinese yam, cabbage, banana, orange, white fungus, peach, apricot and spinach, etc.
2. Low salt
High salt content of foods: MSG, soda crackers, fine dried noodles, soy sauce and so on. Patients with unstable blood pressure or severe edema should avoid salt intake.
3. Low phosphorus
High phosphorus level foods: marine food product and marine plant such as seaweed, laver, animal organs, sesame, tea, honey and yolk should be limited.
4. Low fat
It is forbidden to use animal oil while cooking. Take vegetable oil and don’t take fatty foods. It is better for the kidney disease patients to eat corn oil containing unsaturated fatty acid.
5. High quality protein intake
You can take right amount of egg white, milk, and fine lean meat. However, you should not take vegetable proteins such as bean and each kind of bean products, bean curd and bean milk.
Try to have a strict control of your diet and lifestyle. Medicines and food can do some help, while they can just play a role of assistant. If you want to decrease your creatinine level, the main thing for you is to repair and improve your renal function. As long as renal function is improved, the creatinine level will be decreased naturally.
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