Does Food Taste Different After Starting Dialysis

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Patient A: Yes, my taste bubs changes. I need strong flavours to enjoy foods so I am always using chillies and other herbs as well as spices.

Patient B: Yes being a dialysis patient, food does taste different and even a meal that I used to eat ends up being too filling snacking seems all that my gut will take anything else is poison pup syndrome.

Patient C: I am having a horrible time with food right now. Nothing tastes good. I’d have to say it is normal. Food I have always loved I cannot even stomach right now. Binders could be the cause they mess up your stomach as well.

Patient D: I am not on dialysis only in stage 4 but my food does not taste the same. I have a strong metallic taste all the time.

Dialysis especially for peritoneal dialysis may further impair appetite by causing abdominal discomfort and also through the absorption of the osmotic agent and other factors. An increased peritoneal solute transport rate has been linked to protein-energy wasting and also to the malnutrition, inflammation and atherosclerosis syndrome, which has been related to poor appetite and plays a role in most premature deaths in these patients.

Therefore, in order to improve appetite, you should reduce the frequency of dialysis. To reduce dialysis frequency, you should repair your damaged kidneys and improve renal function. Only in this way can dialysis be reduced or even be stopped. And then your husband’s appetite may be improved.