What Foods Should Patients with Nephritis Avoid

For the patients with Nephritis, their kidneys can not filter out the metabolic wastes from body normally. Therefore, they should be particularly cautious about what they eat. The patients with Nephritis should avoid the following foods:

1. Egg

For the patients with Acute Nephritis, their renal function and metabolic function declines obviously. Hence, a lot of metabolic wastes will build up in body. If the patients eat a lot of eggs, it is not beneficial for the recovery.

2. Banana

Banana is rich in nutrients and it is preferred by many people. However, for the patients with Nephritis or kidney problem, they are forbidden to eat it. Firstly, banana is abundant of sodium. Too much consumption of sodium will aggravate edema. Secondly, it is rich in potassium. If the potassium level is too high in blood, it will affect the cardiac function thus resulting in irregular heart beat and even heart failure.

3. Spicy foods

The spicy foods such as onion, ginger, garlic and mustard can cause serious irritation. The metabolic wastes of these foods have to be excreted out of body kidneys. The spicy integrants will damage the renal parenchymal thus affecting the renal function.
For the patients with Nephritis, they should increase have proper intake of vinegar in their daily diet. Vinegar has the following benefits to the patients with Nephritis.

1. As the patients’ immunity is very weak, it is very easy for infections and other virus to invade into body thus triggering the disease relapse. Vinegar can restrain the virus.

2. Many patients with Nephritis have metabolic disorders. In some cases, the disorders will cause a large amount of calcium to build up in body, which is bad to the patients’ recovery. Vinegar benefits the absorption of calcium and other nutrients.

3. Poor appetite is a big problem for the patients with Nephritis. The acetic acid in vinegar can promote the secretion of gastric juice thus improving gastrointestinal motility.


The above are the general dietary principle for the patients with Nephritis. Depending on your own illness condition, you should follow a personalized diet. If you want to get more personalized suggestions on your diet, you can consult us on line.

Seven care of patients with chronic nephritis

1. They have to eat light and digestible foods, do not eat fish, beef, lamb, spicy food, wine, coffee, parsley.

2. Prevenen flu, avoid cold, do not eat natural foods and tonic.

3. Patients with severe edema, care much salt, limit the amount of protein food, drink little water. if your edema is not serious, you can eat the food are bale salt and sodium; you do not have edema, there is no limit to its water and protein meal.

4. Patients with microscopic hematuria, drink plenty of water, eat a lot of apples, sugar, black sesame seeds and fungus.

5. Patients with hyperkalemia, do not eat pastries, mushrooms, ham, mushrooms, nuts, cornflakes, bananas, oranges, potatoes, radishes, tea, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate.

6. Patients with high blood uric acid, do not eat animals, fish, shrimp, mussels, crab, beer, mushrooms, beans, spinach spoils.

7. Patients in renal failure and uremia, every day have to eat half a pound of milk, an egg, lean 50 gram.