Compliance with a renal diet can help prevent the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate compliance or non-compliance with renal dietary restrictions among older African American adults living in a nursing home setting. Twelve residents were ...
Cooking homemade dog food for kidney disease is a great way to encourage your dog to eat and stay healthy, butensuring they get the proper nutrientscan be a challenge, especially with the restrictions that come with a kidney diet. Be sure to only follow a renal dog food recipe that is a...
Whether you are on the run, packing a lunch for work or have time to eat at home, quick-and-easy lunches can be part of a chronic kidney disease diet. For sandwiches, select white bread and low-sodium luncheon meat and then top with low potassium vegetables such as alfalfa sprouts, oni...
and oatmeal that can all fit nicely in akidney-friendly diet. Although many tasty breakfast foods are kidney-friendly, some foods may have too muchsodiumor other ingredients that aren’t good for someone withchronic kidney disease (CKD). If you or a loved one is living with CKD, rest assu...
Plant-based diets can be risky in chronic kidney disease because they're high in potassium. But there are options that may allow more plants in the diet.
This option has the advantages of requiring fewer restrictions on diet and fluid intake, better quality of life, and longer treatment sessions that may reduce symptoms. Alternatively, some patients are able to have dialysis at home, in which sessions can be longer or shorter and more frequent, ...
Recently, the gut microbiota has been found to play critical roles in a variety of diet-related chronic inflammatory diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, atherosclerosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease7,8,9. Dysbiosis of the gut microbial community in the development...
Ways in which patients can work with their health care professionals to manage their diabetes and CKD include asking questions; becoming educated about diet, physical activity, smoking cessation, glycemic control, and medications; talking to peers and support groups in the diabetes and CKD community;...
Kidney-Friendly Foods to Fight Disease Despite the necessary dietary restrictions for dialysis patients, there are still a wide variety of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods that can be included in the kidney diet. However, in order to keeppotassiumandphosphoruslevels under control, aim to consu...
A kidney diet, or diet based around boosting kidney function and reducing further damage from chronic kidney disease. There are three main nutrients the kidney diet aims to avoid: Sodium, Potassium, and Phosphorus. Damaged kidneys have trouble filtering these nutrients from the blood and maintaining...