What Should I Pay Attention to My Diet with Chronic Glomerular Nephritis

Chronic Glomerular Nephritis damages our kidney directly, and makes us unable in living normally. Damaged kidneys fail to function well, so once diagnosed with Chronic Glomerular Nephritis, we need to change our diet, so as to avoid worsening our kidney function. However, what should we pay attention to our diet with Chronic Glomerular Nephritis?

Kidneys are responsible for keeping balance of electrolyte, producing urine, regulating blood pressure, reabsorbing nutrition and so on. Once they are damaged, abnormally symptoms like high blood pressure, foamy urine, reduced urine and high potassium appear. With these abnormal symptoms, we need to follow the following several dietary principles, so as to protect our residual kidney function:

1. Ingest adequate high quality protein

Protein is the essential substances of our body and we can not live without protein. However, for people with Chronic Glomerular Nephritis, they need to limit protein intake and meanwhile, about 60% protein ingested by them should be high quality protein which can be found in lean meat, egg white, fish and milk.

2. Reduce salt intake

Chronic Glomerular Nephritis causes swelling and high blood pressure directly and reducing salt intake will be helpful for controlling these symptoms. Besides, if patients have serious swelling symptoms, limiting fluid intake is also necessary. The exact fluid intake should depend on their specific illness condition.

3. Change potassium intake

Potassium level is normally kept in a stable range by our kidney. Once kidneys are damaged by Chronic Glomerular Nephritis, patients may suffer from high potassium or low potassium. Both high potassium and low potassium threaten our life seriously, so once potassium level is abnormally, patients need to change their potassium intake in their diet according to their potassium level.

4. Reduce phosphorus intake

Chronic Glomerular Nephritis elevates phosphorus level easily, so if lab tests show high phosphorus level, patients need to leave far away from foods which are high in phosphorus like peanut butter, sardines and so on.

This is the general introduction about Chronic Glomerular Nephritis diet, which may be suitable for some patients. Due to different illness condition, the diet may be different from individual to individual and if you want to know the diet that suitable for you, you can leave message to us and our doctors will reply you within 24 hours.