Diet Therapy for Patients with Chronic Nephritis

Without a timely and effective treatment, Chronic nephritis would develop into CKD. Except the medication treatment, diet therapy also plays an important role in protecting the kidney function and living a high quality life. Now the proper diet therapy is suggested, which would help chronic nephritis patients a lot.

1. Keep a low-salt intake

If patients have symptom of swelling or edema, they should reduce the salt intake. Because too much sodium accumulate in the blood will cause the excess fluid store in the blood, which will cause edema and high blood pressure. The high sodium foods contain table salt, baking soda, baking powder, cheese, snack foods, saltwater crab etc.

2. Take proper protein everyday

Patients with chronic nephritis often have the symptom of proteinuria because of their damaged glomeruli. In order to reduce the kidney burden, patients with chronic nephritis should take proper protein everyday. The amount of protein they need to take differs from case to case, so they should follow the advices of their doctors. On the other hand, they should take high-quality protein food such as egg whites, milk, meat and fish.

3. Limit the fluid intake

Patients who have swelling should also limit the fluid intake everyday. Taking too much fluid will aggravate the symptom of edema and damage the kidney function seriously.
4. Reduce the phosphorus intake
Chronic nephritis can increase the phosphorus level easily, so if patients have a lab test and result in a high phosphorus level, they need to get rid of the high phosphorus foods like peanut butter, sardines and so on.

5. Change potassium intake

Our kidney can keep a stable range of potassium level. When the kidney is damaged by chronic nephritis, patients may suffer from high potassium or low potassium which are both harmful to people. When the potassium level is abnormal, people should change the potassium intake based on the potassium level.


All in all, the diet therapy should be decided and changed according to the specific physical condition, for chronic nephritis patients with the steady physical condition, the limitation of foods intake is less. As for patients with serious condition, they need pay more attention to the foods intake. Now if you want to know more information about the diet therapy for chronic nephritis, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.