How to Eat with Lupus Kidney Disease
2013-11-02 17:20
How to eat with Lupus kidney disease? Lupus kidney disease refers to kidney problem that occurs due to long-term uncontrolled lupus. We should be very careful about foods we eat once being diagnosed with lupus kidney disease, as what we eat affects our illness condition directly. However, how to eat on earth with lupus kidney disease?
First of all, we need to understand that once our kidneys are affected, they will become frail. Under such a condition, they can not bear a heavy burden any more, so we need to avoid foods that will increase burden of kidney. On the basis of this, we need to avoid eating too much meat, as the end product of meat in our body is creatinine which needs to be discharged through kidneys. Besides, the metabolic product of protein is urea nitrogen which also builds up in the blood when kidney function is affected, as kidney is the major organ to discharge this kind of wastes. Therefore, to protect residual kidney tissues, limiting protein intake is also necessary. However, if lupus kidney disease patients have started dialysis, they generally need to increase protein intake as some of the protein are easily removed during dialysis.
Second, with lupus kidney disease, we also need to have a light diet. Kidney has function of regulating blood pressure and when kidney function is affected due to uncontrolled lupus, blood pressure will increase. Salt is rich in sodium and high sodium will cause retention of sodium and fluid in the body, which not only trigger swelling, but also aggravate high blood pressure. For this reason, we need to stay far away from high sodium foods and try to add less salt while cooking if we are patients of lupus kidney disease.
Thirdly, pay attention to the intake of electrolyte. Not matter for lupus kidney disease patients or patients who are living other kinds of kidney disease, they run high risk for electrolyte imbalance, so they need to be careful about the intake of electrolyte like potassium, phosphorus, calcium and so on. Generally, they need to reduce potassium, phosphorus intake and eat more high calcium foods.
Forth, reduce fluid intake if there are swelling. Fluid includes water, beverage and soup. (Any questions about article: How to Eat with Lupus Kidney Disease, please email to kidney-treatment@gmail.com directly)
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