With four obvious features, nephrotic syndrome affects the health of many people, and it is not an easy condition to treat. During treatment, ensuring that you have known what foods you can eat and not eat for nephrotic syndrome may help your entire treatment largely.
What foods you can eat to nephrotic syndrome?
Since patients with nephrotic syndrome children and adults usually have heavy proteinuria, inflammation, hypoalbuminemia and hyperlipidemia, your diet should be the one that can not only help relieve your symptoms, but also protect your kidneys.
Eat more fruits and vegetables can help relieve swelling: White pumpkin, watermelon, mung beans, tomato, laminaria japonica, amanita, celery, and many other fruits and vegetables are natural diuretic. Therefore, eating these foods can increase your urine to remove more waste and excess fluid from the body in order to relieve their swelling.
Foods contain high quality protein: Because your kidneys are damaged, excessive protein intake can increase the burden on the kidneys. White egg, fish, milk etc, all can provide high quality protein to meet the needs of your body.
Foods high in calcium: When leakage of proteins from their kidneys, a lot of calcium also be downloaded from the body through proteinuria. Therefore, paying attention to calcium supplementation is also necessary for health.
Eat more foods rich in vitamin C: This food can help protect remaining kidney function and improve immunity. Here, we would like first to introduce these two fruits: kiwi and blueberries.
Drink some herbal tea: Drink a glass of herbal tea such as nettle leaf, dandelion root and sage is able to increase the rate of waste filter the kidney and improved renal function. In the long run, you can find creatinine and BUN level drops to a certain extent.
What foods can not eat for nephrotic syndrome?
Generally, patients with nephrotic syndrome are recommended to avoid foods high in salt and protein, excess water, spicy foods, coffee, alcohol, plucking etc. Many other councils should depend on the specific condition of the patient. For example, if your potassium level is higher than normal, avoid foods rich in potassium. To request a detailed list of foods diet or plan, you can leave a message or send email to kidney-support@hotmail.com.
