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PROTEIN REQUIREMENT OF HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT

Hemodialysis is done in hospital and it takes much time to remove waste and fluids from your blood by the artificial kidneys. Usually hemodialysis treatment takes four hours and it is done 1 time or 2 times or 3 times per week. It is based on the patient’s condition.

These type of patients need to limit their diet and the requirement of carbohydrate, fat, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, uric acid and fluid is same as the chronic renal failure patient. But protein requirement is not the same as chronic renal failure patient.

Dialysis patients require high amount of protein because through the dialysis process protein is lost from the body. It can cause muscle wasting and patient suffers from malnutrition. In this case a renal dietitian can help through proper diet.

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Protein should be given on the basis of frequency of hemodialysis per week. If hemodialysis is done 1 per week, protein should be given 0.8 – 1 gm/kg/IBW. If it occurs 2 per week, protein requirement is 1.2 gm/kg/IBW and it occurs 3 per week, protein requirement should be slightly high 1.3gm/kg/IBW. But always 1.3 gm protein is not given though 3 times per week dialysis is occurred if the patient’s creatinine level is high and patient suffers from any problem due to high protein diet.