Dietary Suggestions for Lupus Nephritis

For the patients with Lupus Nephritis, besides proper medicine treatment, dietary nurisng care is also an important part to recover from the disease. Some kinds of wrong foods may make the illness condition even severer. Drug ingredients may interact with compositions in foods through certain chemical or physical processes, which may cause bad effects such as reducing effectivness of medicines, resulting in adverse response, worsening the illness condition or even threatening life. Dietary suggestions for Lupus Nephritis are provided as follows.

☆Limit intake of foods which will increase your sensitivity to lights, such as figs, milk vetches, rape, yellow mud snail and celery. Some kinds of foods have the potential in inducing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), such as mushrooms, fungus, food dyes and tobaccos.

☆Proper consumption of proteins. Glomerular damage caused by Lupus Nephritis may cause loss of proteins from urine. Those suffering from heavy proteinuria caused by Lupus need to be supplied sufficient high quality proteins, such as egg white, lean meat, fish, milk, etc.

☆Low lipid diet. Systemic Lupus Nephritis patients have reduced appetite and do less activity. Thereby, light-flavored and digestible foods will be recommended as substitutions for greasy foods.

☆Restrict the intake of sugar. Long-term application of glucocorticoids on lupus patients may induce Cushing’s syndrome or steroid Diabetes Mellitus. To reduce the risks, it bettter to reduce rich sugar content foods and control your intake of foods.

☆Low sodium. Damage to the kidneys caused by lupus may cause retention of fluid. This will cause swelling in limbs, eyelids, ankles, etc. Eating too much sodium will make more fluid stay in the body thus making the swelling even severer. Avoid foods that are rich in sodium, such as pickles, fast foods and other processed foods.

☆Supplement sufficient calcium. Osteoporosis results if glucocortoids are taken through long peroid of time. Hence, it is suggeted to eat more vegetalbes and fruits which will provide calcium and vitamins needed by human body.

☆Foods to be avoided: rid seafoods from your diet. Most patients with Lupus have an allergic constitution. Eating seafoods may cause allergic response, thus worsening the illness condition. Animal meat, such as mutton, dog meat or venison shuold also be avoided. Caraways and celeries may induce photosensitization thus making skin erythema even worse. Get rid of the two foods for your health. In addition, remove spicy foods such as pepper, raw onions or raw garlics from your diet.

Proper dietary nursing care plan is targeted to stabilize your general condition, reduce risks of worsening it and assist medical treatment in improving health status. You may talk with doctors to design a dietary plan. For specific suggestion, you may submit your test reports to us and our expert panels are ready for help.