Why should anyone with any disease pay extra attention to its diet chart? Many people think that they become what they eat. And, nothing is wrong with this saying. It is because the foods your chew influence your body and brain, with health and unhealthy. What to eat and what not is a complicated question for everyone? And especially for the one who is looking for a kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients.
W H AT A P E R F E C T R E N A L D I E T I N C LU D E S ?
• Meat? • Dairy products? • Fruits? • Or, vegetables? A perfect kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients includes the foods that help reduce creatinine and rejuvenate the sick kidney. But what if a kidney patient is a pure vegetarian or vegan? Will it help if a kidney patient modified his renal diet according to vegetarian foods or vegan foods? Maybe yes! It is essential to get a verified kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients by a nephrologist and dietician. Only the professionals will guide you to understand the best to eat to rejuvenate a CKD kidney. The kidney-friendly diet for vegetarians and vegans in this article has been curated for your reference only. Before making any changes in your diet, consult a doctor
For that, you consult Dr. Puneet Dhawan. He will curate a diet plan based on your medical reports and current condition. Also, he will help to treat your chronic kidney disease with no dialysis or artificial medicines. Let’s get back to our main topic and learn about a kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients. In a kidney patient diet, nutrition management is done to get an appropriate amount of nutrients. The nutrients that will cause more problems for a kidney patient. A kidneyfriendly diet is curated to maintain a patient’s vigor and vitality. Also, a diet is essential to maintain an adequate amount of fluid in the body.
B U T T H E M A I N P O I N T I S W H AT I F A PAT I E N T I S V E G E TA R I A N ?
People who only eat vegetarian products and dairy products. What will they do if we seclude dairy products, lentils, or green leafy vegetables from their diet? In India, dairy products are considered vegetarian and the best to beat any disease. A considerable amount of the population believes that dairy products are enough to cure infirmity. The number of vegetarians is more than people who eat animal-based foods. So, what vegetarian kidney patients do when we cut green vegetables from their diet plan? Source :
Yes, a kidney patient cannot eat green leafy vegetables, dairy products, some lentils, fruits, and vegetables. But, how do they go to cover the needs of protein, phosphorus, potassium, and vitamins? Let’s read about it – Protein: Protein is imperative to build muscles, repairing the damaged tissues, and form the cells to prevent infections. Eggs and meat are the wealthiest protein sources, so do pulses and milk. The main point is to maintain a healthy level of protein in a chronic kidney disease patient’s diet. Following is the list of protein-rich foods that a healthy person should eat to fend off many health anomalies. But, sorry to say, for the sake of kidneys, a kidney patient cannot eat • Soysources • Peas proteinof(tofu, tempeh) these protein. • Wheat protein (seitan) • Unsalted nuts • Nut butter • Low-sodium or reduced• Soy milk or yogurt sodium cottage cheese • Beans • Whole grains
Sodium: Usually, raw vegetarian foods are free of sodium. But, it presents in cooked foods due to salt. Try to consume sodium in the lowest amount possible if you have chronic kidney disease or any other kidney problem. Consume only fresh fruits, not the following ones. • Frozen foods – for instance frozen peas, canned soup, dried soups, and frozen vegetables and fruits. • Soy-based cheese. • Processed cheese, mayonnaise, and other processed foods. • Ordinary salt, common salt, soy sauce, and all the sauces contain sodium and salt in high amounts. • Use rock salt or Saindhav Namak only; that too in the lowest possible amount. Potassium: When you talk about a kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients, you cannot add potassiumrich foods to it. Fruits and vegetables are the great and primary potassium source, but a patient cannot have more than 100 grams of both every day. Wise choices of foods are imperative to maintain a healthy level of potassium in your body. Along with that, your food choices also matter to elevating your low hemoglobin level. It would help if you verified the foods you are taking for potassium with your dietician. In the following, we have mentioned the list of rich foods in potassium andSource detrimental to a CKD patient’s :
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Soybeans Soy nuts Soy flour Natto (soybean paste) Wasabi
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Melons Tomato products Tropical fruits Potatoes Textured vegetable protein
Phosphorus: Avoiding the amount of phosphate intake in high amounts is always recommended for maintaining a kidney patient’s vigor and vitality. To keep the kidneys functioning healthy and in the favor, you must avoid including the following things in a kidney-friendly diet for CKD patients. • Dark colas • Processed foods • Concentrated phosphorus Yes, we know that you are looking for some phosphate binders present in the market to absor phosphorus consumption. But, they are not healthy for you, so do not go for them. When we talk about dairy products for CKD patients, sorry, but they are not healthy. They are high in phosphorus, calcium, protein, and vitamins. All these nutrients are not healthy for an afflicted person with CKD. But, you can replace dairy products with the milk obtained from
• Soy milk • Coconut milk
W H A T A R E T H E P E R K S O F F O L L O W I N G A K I D N E YF R I E N D LY D I E T ?
• In most cases, kidney patients get the proven results by following a kidney-friendly diet. • Freedom from a disease uremic symptoms • Elevation in Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) and kidney blood flow • Reduce kidney cyst growth • Keep the levels of blood pressure, blood sugar, or cholesterol under control • Reduce creatinine and other electrolytes • Soothe mind and body Following is a kidney-friendly diet plan for chronic kidney disease patients: Breakfast: • Veg Upma (once a week) or roti with one bowl of vegetable • One bowl wheat Namkeen broken wheat with vegetables • One bowl wheat roasted vermicelli with vegetables • Stuffed boiled onion roti without oil or roti with one bowl of vegetable • Brown bread once a week without edges
Lunch: • Roti with one bowl vegetable (gourd, bottle gourd, apple gourd, ridge gourd, etc.) • Roti with one bowl vegetable and 20 gm fresh curd • Roti with one bowl vegetable or cottage cheese curry 25 gm or one egg white curry but once a week Evening: • 1/2 cup tea with a marigold biscuit Dinner: • Roti with one bowl vegetable (gourd, bottle gourd, apple gourd, ridge gourd, etc.) • Wheat Roti (bread) with one and half a bowl of vegetable and radish but once a week • Roti with one bowl vegetable and carrot but once a week • Half a bowl of boiled rice once a week
D I E T C H A RT F O R K I D N E Y PAT I E N T S W I T H C K D A N D PROTEINURIA:
Pre-Breakfast: • Drink soaked fenugreek water 1 cup Mid-Morning and Evening: • Milk/tea-50 ml/ ½ cup without sugar and • Marie gold biscuits-2
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Breakfast: • One bowl wheat Namkeen broken wheat with vegetables • One bowl veg oats or two pieces of Rava idli and ½ bowl of sambar • One bowl wheat roasted vermicelli with vegetables • Toned milk 100ml • One bowl sprouted salad • Two pieces of brown bread potato sandwich and cucumber Pre-Lunch: • Apple • Watermelon
• Papaya • Pear • Blackberry
Lunch and Dinner: • ½ plate salad and one bowl vegetable like ladyfinger, bitter gourd, carrot, paneer, capsicum, and ridge gourd and two tortillas Renal diet for the kidney patients with chronic kidney disease and dialysis: Pre-breakfast: • ½ cup tea with whole wheat biscuits/marie gold biscuit
Mid-morning and evening snacks: • Apple • Pear • Guava without seeds
• Papaya • ½ cup tea with whole wheat biscuits • Veg roll
Breakfast: • Stuffed paneer Parantha in less oil Before Lunch: • Apple • Watermelon • Papaya
• Pear • Guava (Without seeds)
Lunch and Dinner: • Roti with one bowl of vegetables like raw papaya or pumpkin • Necessary precautions need to be taken care of: • Avoid alcohol • Avoid smoking • Avoid processed foods • Avoid pre-made foods Source :
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Avoid foods that are oily and spicy Drink fresh juices Eat fresh fruits Cook food at home and don’t just order it Keep control of your blood pressure Keep control of your sugar levels Avoid Antibiotic Practice yoga and meditation every day Keep intervals in eating anything Consume foods in small meals
Before making any changes in a CKD patient diet, consult Dr. Puneet Dhawan. Along with that, for complete kidney disease remission, take Ayurvedic treatment.
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