Something about Diet for Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a general calling of all kinds of kidney disease and the disease decreased kidney function by months and years. In clinical, many kidney related diseases like Polycystic Kidney Disease, Diabetic Nephropathy and so on can be regarded as Chronic Kidney Disease. Chronic Kidney Disease is generally divided into five stages according to Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR). The following information is about the diet for Chronic Kidney Disease.

Low Salt.
Salt content of foods: MSG, soda, cracker, fine dried noodles, soy sauce, etc. Patients whose blood pressure is not stable or has severe edema, should avoid salt. In general, every patient takes salt less than 3 g every day.

Low Fat.
Note: It is forbidden to use animal oil while cooking. Take vegetable oil mainly, do not take in fatty food. It is better for the kidney disease patients to have corn oil contained unsaturated fatty acid.

High Vitamin.
Take more vegetable and every kind of vitamin such as pear, apple, cucumber, tomato, etc.

Low Potassium.
High potassium content of foods should be forbidden: all kinds of edible fungi, potato, Chinese yam, cabbage, date, bananas, oranges, white fungus, peach, apricot, spinach, rape, etc.

Low Phosphorus.
High phosphorus content of foods: marine food product and marine plant such as seaweed, laver, animal's bowels, sesame, tea, honey, yolk, etc.

High Quality Protein.
We can take proper amount of egg white, milk and fine lean meat, the amount of intake should be less than 100g. Don't take every kind of nuts, such as peanuts, melon seeds and walnuts.

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