DIALYSIS DIET
Dialysis is life-saving procedure that removes waste products from the body with help of an artificial kidney i.e. a dialyzer. This procedure is usually recommended to individuals with kidney failure. It is essential to change your diet if you have been advised dialysis as a treatment as dietary modifications help you live longer and healthier on dialysis. This diet is known as a dialysis diet.
The below article highlights when do you need nutrition guidance, how can you benefit as well as what are the differences between a general diet and a dialysis diet
- The process of dialysis helps in removing certain waste products from body; however, it is important to keep these waste products in control between the two dialysis treatments
- Hence, it is important to select foods that are good for dialysis patients, for which you need correct dietary guidance
With nutrition guidance, you can keep waste products under control
Your Renal Dietitian can help you select foods wisely, as a result of which you can avoid fatal complications as well as lead a better quality of life on dialysis
The difference is that a dialysis diet is usually:
low in salt
low in proteins
low in fluids
at times, low is potassium
at times, low in phosphates
Kidney diet/ renal diets are cautiously individualized and require a careful quantification of the above nutrients to keep kidney health in check
This can be done by a Qualified Renal Nutritionist
Get information about some DO’s and DON’T’s about dialysis diet by our expert Renal Nutritionist
Get access to our healthy dialysis recipes designed especially for dialysis patients
