Patients with diabetic nephropathy which foods should be avoided

Many people are concerned that they will not get diabetic nephropathy, then what foods should be avoided in patients with diabetic nephropathy is it? On a brief look below.

1. Salty food
Do you know that much salt intake can aggravate the burden of kidneys and lead to more serious kidney damage? Besides, it also can contribute to high blood pressure and edema. While salty food is rich in salt, so in order to protect kidneys, you should avoid salty food.

2. Sweetmeat
It seems like common sense that the blood sugar level is higher than normal for the patients with Diabetes, as well as Diabetic Nephropathy. That is too say, the patients need to limit the sweetmeat intake strictly, such as white sugar, brown sugar, honey, chocolate, dextrose, fruit drops, preserved fruit, high carbohydrate foods and so on. While, if your blood sugar is low, you can eat them properly.

3. High potassium food
For the patients, you are easy to suffer from hyperkalemia due to the damaged kidneys, so you had better reduce the potassium intake, and the high potassium foods include bananas, oranges, potatoes, bitter gourd, spinach, tremella and so on.

4. High protein diet
As we all know, protein is so important to help us rebuild and repair the damaged tissues. While, high protein diet can increase the burden of kidneys, but in order to meet your needs, you should properly eat some foods rich in high quality, such as white egg, fish and lean meat.


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