Post Date December, 03 2023
Do you know what dietary issues you should pay attention to in daily life for patients with nephrotic syndrome? I believe there are still many friends who cannot answer, so today the Phoenix Traditional Chinese Medicine editor summarized the following content for you.
1. Light diet: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that overeating greasy and thick flavors can damage the spleen and stomach, aid in evil and hinder dampness, and can lead to edema in excess or deficiency in essence, especially when it is urgent and appropriate to treat its symptoms. It advocates a light diet with easily digestible foods. How to eat for nephrotic syndrome? The intake of animal fat should be limited, cholesterol rich food should be avoided, food containing unsaturated fat should be encouraged, and soluble fiber food should be added.
2. Patients with nephrotic syndrome often have poor appetite. It is important to pay attention to the diversification of dietary preparations and strive to achieve a perfect unity of color, aroma, taste, and shape to stimulate the patient's appetite. Cooking oil can be used from 30 to 40 grams per day depending on the condition. For nephrotic syndrome, it is recommended to eat more, refined salad oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, and other vegetable oils, and use less animal oil. The meal should be made as light as possible to facilitate digestion and absorption by the patient.
3. The diet for nephrotic syndrome should be moderate and the intake of sodium salt should be limited: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salt enters the kidneys and can overflow, so edema should be avoided. However, according to the edema situation, the intake of sodium salt should be limited, and 1-2 grams of sodium salt can be consumed daily. In case of severe edema, you can only eat 0.5g salt or a salt free diet every day. You should not eat salted fish, bacon, Salted duck egg, Preserved eggs, Fermented bean curd and various kinds of pickles. If salt is not used during cooking, 5-10 milliliters of soy sauce can be used daily.
4. Dietary high protein for nephrotic syndrome: In patients with nephrotic syndrome, due to the loss of a large amount of protein in urine, hypoproteinemia, the plasma colloid osmotic pressure is reduced, and the swelling is intractable. If the kidney function is good, give a high protein diet. Adults are given a weight of 1.5-2 grams per kilogram per day, with a total weight of 100-120 grams per day to correct and prevent plasma protein loss, anemia, and malnutrition edema. Kidney syndrome diet should choose foods rich in high-quality protein such as milk, eggs, lean pork, lean beef and mutton, chicken, and fish.
5. It is an unscientific statement in society that kidney disease patients should abstain from eating meat, eggs, and scaleless fish. On the contrary, these patients should eat more protein, especially foods rich in high-quality protein, such as milk, eggs, lean meat, chicken, fish, etc. Of course, it is not an unlimited intake of protein. Long term excessive intake of protein is not only beneficial, but also increases the burden on the kidneys, leading to worsening kidney damage. Patients with nephrotic syndrome with azotemia who consume less protein must consume more carbohydrates to supplement themselves. In addition, they should eat fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins.
Patients with nephrotic syndrome must pay attention to their diet, take effective care of themselves, and help them recover their health as soon as possible.
