Daily Diet For Nephrotic Syndrome Patients

What should Nephrotic Syndrome patients pay attention to? Nephrotic Syndrome occurs to many people and is characterized by massive proteinuria, hyperlipidaemia, significant edema, hypoalbuminemia. Many symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome present and if not treated timely, they will aggravate the illness conditions. What’s worse, Nephrotic Syndrome may advance into kidney failure, putting patients at a higher risk of dialysis or kidney transplantation. In order to alleviate the conditions and control the development of the disease, Nephrotic Syndrome patients may pay much attention to their diet.

1. All kidney disease patients should avoid spicy foods, fried foods, crabs, garlic, caraway, raw onions, wine, dog meat, beef, mutton, coffee and aniseed, etc.

2. Low-salt diet and light foods which are rich in vitamins.

In Nephrotic Syndrome, edema is the most significant symptom of patients, so Nephrotic Syndrome patients should limit the water intake, have a t low salt diet and eat light foods, which may alleviate their illness condition to some degree. In addition, patients who have severe edema should limit the salt intake within 0.5g/d. Patients should avoid high-salt foods, including canned foods, pickles, bacon, processed foods and cheese and so on.

3. Limit protein intake

In Nephrotic Syndrome and other kidney diseases, patients who have massive proteinuria should control protein intake and ingest high quality protein, like milk, lean meat and egg white. Adults should ingest 60g/d of high quality protein and high quality protein is given priority to high biological protein.

4. Eating a heart-healthy diet

Nephrotic Syndrome causes the buildup of cholesterol and triglycerides in the body, which can damage the heart. Eating a heart-healthy diet may help reduce the amount of fat in your body.

Choose lean meat

Do not eat any visible fat.

Eat chicken and turkey without skin.

Eat more fish. Avoid fish canned in oil, such as sardines.

Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet.

Drink fat-free or low-fat milk.

Besides, there are some other tips you should pay attention to:

1. Prevent colds, have enough rest, avoid overworking and maintain a good mood.

2. Avoid using some drugs which are harmful to your kidneys such as Ekacakra and amikacin.

The above are just some general dietary tips for your Nephrotic Syndrome and you should pay attention to your diet depending on your own illness conditions, which contributes to controlling your Nephrotic Syndrome. We hope they can help you a lot.