Low Phosphorus Diet For Nephrotic Syndrome

If you have nephrotic syndrome, your doctor may recommend you have a low phosphorus diet. Many patients may be eager to know why they should have a low phosphorus diet and what harms of high phosphorus will do to their health.

1. The harms of high phosphorus diet will do to their health.

The healthy kidneys have the function of balancing electrolytes and keep them in a normal range. However, when the kidneys are injured, they can not do their job well, easily causing high phosphorus in the body. In this case, high phosphorus leads to low calcium. Low calcium will cause bone diseases and your bones are easily broken. Besides, a build up of phosphorus in your body will lead to hyperphosphatemia. Therefore, a low phosphorus diet is good for nephrotic syndrome.

2. How to treat hyperphosphatemia in nephrotic syndrome?

Frist, you should strictly control phosphorus intake in your diet. However, if you control your diet too strict, it will also affect the absorption of other nutrition, so the amount of daily phosphorus is no more than 1.2g/d. Nephrotic syndrome patients should choose some low phosphorus foods and avoid high phosphorus foods. The following are foods which are not suitable for nephrotic syndrome patients (high phosphorus foods).

Milk and its products: pudding, yogurt, icecream and cheese and so on.

Seafoods: kelp, nori and dried small shrimps.

Vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, mushrooms and spinach.

Whole grains: whole- grain breads, crackers, cereal, rice and pasta.

Others: yolk, chocolate and cola soft drink.

Second, phosphate binder should be used and calcium-phosphorus binder is currently used, such as calcium carbonate and calcium gluconate. Because the amount of element calcium in calcium carbonate is more than 40%, and the calcium carbonate has the function of reducing phosphorus, inhibiting parathyroid hormone secretion, not affecting the fixed value of calcium and phosphorus as well as treating acidosis, calcium carbonate is very popular to doctors and patients.

Having a low phosphorus diet is helpful for nephrotic syndrome patients and kidney disease patients. Choosing what low phosphorus foods depends on your illness conditions, and you can also ask for your doctor to give you a diet list which may be helpful for you. Any questions, you can leave us a message to kidneycares@hotmail.com or just consult our on-line doctors.