Kidney Patients How to Salt

When kidney disease; kidney affected the regulation of sodium, sodium excretion disorder. Due to an increase in sodium and water retention also occur, often manifested as edema and hypertension. Therefore, patients with kidney disease salt intake there is a strict limit. However, if long-term strict salt restriction, hyponatremia may occur, patients showed origin tired fatigue, lack of energy and so on. So kidney patients can salt it, for kidney disease patients, the appropriate grasp salt intake important to you. The answer of course is yes, so, we should have to salt restriction against kidney patients. Generally speaking, there are two cases.

First, the basic situation of kidney disease salt restriction. According to the physical condition of kidney patients specific conditions also have different requirements. Salt restriction can be divided into two basic situations.

(1) no-salt diet

Patients with edema or high blood pressure, it should ban salt. Even the salt in the list of taboo foods (such as alkaline hair buns, salty pastry), baking soda, soy sauce and so on. This is found in the early acute nephritis, chronic nephritis, acute exacerbation of primary nephrotic syndrome, chronic renal failure associated with moderate to severe hypertension and edema, it should ban salt. Salt-free diet may affect the patient's appetite, you can use salt-free soy sauce or sugar, vinegar, ginger, garlic and other spices to increase appetite. The length of time the salt ban should be based on specific circumstances. Salt-free diet standards are evident edema and hypertension, if the patient or two less obvious symptoms disappeared, you can improve low-salt diet.

(2) low-salt diet

Suitable for patients with mild edema, hypertension and edema, hypertension subside after. Acute nephritis, chronic nephritis and nephrotic syndrome convalescence, chronic renal failure without edema, hypertension available low-salt diet. Low-salt diet requires daily sodium intake between 3 to 5 grams. Patients also edible low sodium. During the low-salt diet, do not eat salted eggs, salted duck eggs, pickles.

Second, if the patient has not been seen edema, high blood pressure, or hypertension, edema and disappear, those who did not repeat, it does not strictly limit salt, but not too much salt intake, diet is appropriate to light, eat more vegetables, fruits. For patients using diuretics, pay attention to check serum sodium should not be severely restricted low sodium salt.

In addition, patients with chronic kidney disease when blood pressure is not the phenomenon, should be based on the patient's sensitivity to salt, salt restriction implement individualized care occurs, not sensitive without strict salt restriction, so as not to affect the quality of life of patients and to avoid bringing salt restriction fatigue, dizziness, muscle cramps and lipid metabolism disorders, and even serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, and many other side effects. Sensitive to salt salt restriction should be early. Reduce blood pressure and delay the occurrence of renal hypertension, thereby protecting renal function.

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