Kidney Dialysis: Dietary Dos and Don’ts!
Basically, a healthy kidney removes waste from the blood. They also flush fluid from the body. Now, waste means the excess of chemicals, minerals, elements, mainly acquired through our diet. Waste can also include the excess of Phosphorus, Sodium, Fluids, Creatinine, Urea etc. One can reduce waste build-up by controlling diet constituting both solids and liquid. If not taken care of, this can make one sick between the dialysis. Diet hence forms an important part of treatment for patients undergoing kidney dialysis. For a patient under kidney dialysis following things matter the most: - 1) Right kind and amount of diet. 2) Medicines on time. 3) Dialysis as prescribed. Between dialysis sessions, certain types of diet if taken can cause wastes to build up quickly. A kidney treatment session may not be able to remove all that extra build-up. Dietary control of fluids Kidney dialysis removes extra fluid from the body. But it has a limit and hence between the dialysis,...