It is very important for patients with uremia to stabilize their condition. The doctor gives 5 small dietary suggestions
Uremia is the end stage of kidney disease and is the most serious stage of kidney disease. In this stage, irreversible kidney failure occurs, and the kidney function is basically in a state of paralysis. If the diet cannot be adjusted accordingly, the burden on the kidneys will be more serious and the condition will further deteriorate. Next, let's take a look at how uremia patients can eat to make their condition more stable.
What dietary points should uremia patients pay attention to?
- Control your protein intake
For patients with uremia, do not think that consuming more protein will make your body better. The fact is better. On the contrary, you must control your protein intake. Ingesting a large amount of protein will increase the metabolic wastes such as serum creatinine, which will affect the disease and further deteriorate the renal function. However, it is unreasonable to not consume protein at all. You should consume some high-quality protein. It is more appropriate to consume 0.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
- Eat a low-salt diet
Patients with uremia should pay attention to the restriction of salt in their daily diet, and do not put too much salt. Salt contains a lot of sodium ions, which will increase the burden on the kidneys. Whether it is patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, or patients with kidney diseases such as uremia, they must learn a low-salt diet. The daily intake of salt should not exceed 4 grams, including not only the salt you put in daily cooking, but also the invisible salt in some foods. The patient's family members should pay more attention to this, so as to develop a recipe suitable for uremia patients to eat.
- Don’t eat too many fatty foods
In addition to controlling salt and protein, you should also control fat and don't eat too much oil. If you often eat some greasy food, it will increase cholesterol, which will affect the body's metabolism. The kidney function of patients with uremia is on the verge of collapse, and even some have collapsed and need to rely on hemodialysis to maintain. If it is affected by abnormal metabolism at this time, uremia will be further aggravated.
- Multivitamins
Patients with uremia need to pay attention everywhere in their diet, and there is no special taboo in terms of vegetables and fruits. Vitamin supplementation can help improve the immunity of patients with uremia. These foods are rich in dietary fiber, which can relieve constipation and reduce cholesterol and triglycerides. The only thing to pay attention to is to be careful about potassium in fruits and vegetables, otherwise blood pressure will rise. Fruits rich in potassium include bananas, pears, etc., and these fruits should be eaten less.
- Control water intake
For ordinary people, drinking more water is good for health, but for uremia patients, drinking too much water is not conducive to disease control. Patients with uremia should control water in daily life, do not drink too much water, and drink water in a day, including invisible water in food, should be controlled within the range of 500 ml of urine volume. In this regard, it must be strictly controlled. Many dialysis patients due to uremia have excessive intake of water, which leads to particularly dangerous situations, and even people lose their lives.
The above are several issues that patients with uremia need to pay attention to in terms of diet, which is the need to control the disease. Whether it is the uremia patient himself or the family member of the uremia patient, these points must be kept in mind and put into practice to escort the treatment.