How to Deal with Weight Loss Problem in Kidney Failure


Many Kidney Failure patients often face the annoying problem - weight loss. With their renal function declining, the kidneys can not discharge the metabolic wastes normally and maintain the electrolyte balance so the body can not be able to digest food properly. Moreover, patients with Kidney Failure have to keep strict dietary principles like limiting protein, salt and so on. As a result, it will result in weight loss problem in Renal Failure. If not correct the problem in time, it will decline their immunity greatly accelerating the disease progression. Therefore, it is very important for the patients to take measures to deal with weight loss in Renal Failure.
1. If you are a Renal Failure suffer, eating enough calories each day can help you prevent weight loss. However, they should avoid eating some foods that can place much pressure on the kidneys, which include foods that contain sodium, potassium, phosphorus.
2. The patients with Renal Failure who do not undergo dialysis need keep a low protein diet. However, if they utilize to filter their blood, they are very likely to loss a large amount of protein in dialysis fluid. In this case, they need to supply their protein properly under your doctors’ guidance. Protein is important to prevent weight loss in Renal Failure because the body needs the protein to build and repair tissues and prevent muscle loss.
However, not all patients with Renal Failure need to worry about their weight loss. For some patients like those with Diabetes, hypertension, the doctors usually recommend them some strict demands on their daily diet to loss their excess weight for it can cause much burden to their kidneys. On the contrary, losing weight can delay the disease progression.
Therefore, the patients should consider their own disease condition and make a rational diet, exercise, treatment plan so as to avoid the weight loss problem in Renal Failure.

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