Proper Diet for IgA Nephropathy Patients?

Diet is one of important factor for kidney disease patients. IgA Nephropathy patients is also no exception. So I want to share you the suggestion diet for IgA Nephropathy patients.

1. Low-salt diet: for IgA Nephropathy Patients, if they have obvious edema, they should restrict the intake of salt avoiding aggravating the condition of edema. For patients with slight or no symptoms of edema they should take low-salt diet.
Attentions: other kind of food containing sodium should be also restricted such as pickle, cookie, dessert, condiment, etc.
2. control water intake: IgA Nephropathy Patients have dysfunctions of the internal excess water and waste products′ discharge. So when patients have obvious edema they should also restrict with the water intake.
3. Low-protein diet: because the metabolic of protein such as creatinine, uric acid will be discharged by kidney. For IgA Nephropathy patients, their renal function is damaged, this waste products can not be well discharged by kidney and accumulate in body and causes poisoning. So patients should take low-protein diet to relieve the burden to kidney. Besides, they should also take high-quality protein diet which not only meets the nutrient requirement but also reduces the waste product of protein.

4. Low-fat diet: patients should eat low-fat diet, because too much fat will be metabolized into lipid which increases the risk of blood viscosity or thrombus.

The above content is the diet principle for IgA Nephropathy patients. If you still have any questions want to consult me. Send an email to kineyfailuretreat@hotmail.com.

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