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Potassium food list 

low potassium food

• LOW POTASSIUM FOODS :

Bottle gourd, broad beans, cucumber, field beans, oalcopi, radish pink, mango Green, ridge gourd, snake gourd,French beans, tomato green, broccoli, apple, guava, jamrul (rose apple), orange, papaya ripe, pears, pineapple.

Polycystic kidney disease is a condition where many cysts develop in the kidneys. Autosomal polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is most common. It is hereditary disorder caused by a single gene inherited from one parent. ADPKD is the result of mutation in one gene of two principal genes called PKD1 on chromosome 16 or PKD2. ADPKD usually develops in adulthood (between the ages of 30 to 50)

polycystic kidney disease

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.

protein rich foods

Healthy kidneys help us to live healthy. So, we should maintain a proper diet. But if anyone suffering from kidney disease, he or she should strictly maintain a renal diet with medicines. Medicine is not the only way for preventing kidney disease from further damage. A good renal diet is also very important for the patients. So here some basic nutritional advices for chronic renal failure patients but they are not on dialysis.

Kidney disease and renal failure is an epidemic of recent time not only in our country but also throughout the world. If kidney disease is not addressed in right time, this would ultimately progress to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). It is not possible to provide advanced kidney disease care to all the people who are suffering from kidney disease. India is known to be diabetic capital of the world and 4th in place for hypertension. These are considered as the two major causes of kidney disease.

There are few nephrologists but day by day kidney disease is increasing rapidly. So, prevention of kidney disease is not so easy.

Therefore, we should know some basic knowledge about kidneys and its function and some tips to keep kidney healthy.

Kidneys:-

Kidneys are bean shaped excretory organ located just below the rib cage. We have two kidneys and both work simultaneously to remove toxins out of the body.