Diet for patients with Renal Failure or Renal transplantation

Kidneys filter wastes, electrolytes and fluid from blood through your urine. If kidneys fail to function, dangerous levels of fluid, wastes will accumulate in human body. There are many things can cause renal failure, such as hypertension, diabetes, toxic poisoning and infections. Therefore, supporting your kidneys with a proper diet can be one of the best and easiest treatments.
Here are some tips for those who take Kidney Transplantation or with Renal Failure.

1. Transplanted kidney function hasn’t recovered yet.

During this period, the patients should pay attention to avoid eating too much vegetable protein. The diet should be based on low-salt and low-protein. Avoid gaining weight too fast in a short time so as not to increase burden of heart and kidneys.

2. Transplanted kidneys return to normal.

Generally speaking, the patients with kidney transplantation should avoid foods and dietary habits which are bad for stabilizing condition. The patients finally can get rid of those restrictions of water-intake or weight management, thus their appetite improves significantly. Due to take glucocorticoids which improve the appetite, a great deal of patients put on weight rapidly during this period, or even hyperlipemia occurs. On this occasion, you should manage your diet and not eat too much. Healthy diet should be strongly recommended. The healthy diet should mainly includes fresh vegetables, fruits, low-fat, proper calorie and quality protein. High quality protein contains meat, chicken, eggs or fishes etc.

3. Choices of fruits and foods.

Avoid eating grapefruit and grapes, because those two fruits would increase the blood concentration. Consequently, these two fruits increase renal toxicity and excessive immunosuppression. Besides, mushrooms should not be eaten.

4. Kidney-transplant recipients who are complicated with diabetes.

Those patients should manage their sugar intake.

After kidney transplantation, the patients must continue to take medications to prevent rejection. Due to their diseases, patients who suffer from renal failure have a different diet from others. A healthy diet would have a better effect together with improving patient’s prognosis. That’s why patients are encouraged to carry on a healthy diet and proper exercise to promote kidney health.