Can Renal Failure Patients Have Salt?

Because we all know that water, salt directly related to edema, chronic renal failure on so many special attention salt water, causing "fear of salt", "fear of water" mentality, not even salt, counterproductive. Limit salt water restrictions to have high blood pressure, edema, chronic renal failure patients oliguria is necessary in order to avoid excessive water and sodium retention, edema and hypertension. But not all patients should limit water and salt. Without hypertension, edema and oliguria, we should not limit water, salt intake. Sodium salt does not cause missing, appear damaged muscle cramps, low blood pressure, low blood volume, orthostatic hypotension and renal function. Even with edema and oliguria and other symptoms, should take low-salt diet, proper control of the water inflow.

Edema is a common symptom of kidney disease, but also the most likely to feel the change in the patient, when the patient has renal failure can not be discharged water, salt, prone to edema and increased blood pressure. So, when suffering from chronic renal failure, your doctor will repeatedly told patients and their families must limit salt intake.

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is not an independent disease progression of renal damage various causes deterioration of the performance of end-stage renal function closer to normal about 10%, there was a series syndrome generally have relatively long duration, divided according to their degree of renal dysfunction decompensated renal insufficiency; renal insufficiency decompensated known as azotemia; renal failure; also known as end-stage uremia.

Therefore, in patients with chronic renal failure is strict control of water intake of salt, as the case may be, by a doctor. Excessive salt fear, fear of water is not necessary, so that the results can only be counterproductive.