Diet Nursing for Dialysis Patients

Diet Nursing for Dialysis Patients With the development of blood purification equipment, CKD patients benefit a lot, prolonging their life expectancy. However, in clinic some patients with dialysis still suffer from symptoms, such as water retention, hyperkalemia, heart failure and so on. But through a scientific diet nursing, CKD patients not only can keep a good nutrition for body, they also can prevent and remit the complications of dialysis, improving their life quality. This article will introduce some diet tips for maintenance hemodialysis patients.

The important points of diet nursing

1. Patients with dialysis will lose lots of protein and amino acid, so they should increase the protein intake and 1.2kg/d is proper them. In addition, patients should take more high quality protein foods intake, such as egg white, milk, lean, fish and so on, for the high quality protein is easy metabolized by human body with few wastes.

2. Enough calorie can inhibit the metabolism of protein and decrease the wastes in human body, lowering the rate of being attacked by acidosis and hyperkalemia. And the proper calorie intake should keep in 33-35kcal/(kg·d).

3. Most of the dialysis patients suffer oliguria or anuria, so patients should limit the fluid intake seriously. Keeping the water balance is the key link to prevent the complications and improve the livability.

4. Whether patients can follow the limitation of fluid intake depend on the sodium intake in a large degree, so for patients with dialysis, the limitation intake of sodium is more important for limitation of fluid intake. The proper intake usually is 3-5g/d, at the same time, patients should avoid pickles, salted egg such foods.

5. Patients with dialysis also pay attention to the potassium in foods. The high potassium foods include many kinds of vegetables and fruits, nut fruits, potato, mushroom, cocoa, chocolate, coffee and so on. In addition, patients can clean the potassium in foods through immersing, boiling, cold storage and so on.

In addition, patients also need increase the vitamins and calcium intake properly, which is good for balancing the human body.

All in all, maintenance hemodialysis patients should combine the diet with the dialysis and medicine, keeping a good nutrition for maintenance hemodialysis. We really hope patients can have a high quality life. And if you still want to know more information about dialysis diet, contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.