Can CKD Patients Eat Sandwiches?

Sandwich is a kind of fast food popular in USA. Most Americans take sandwich as breakfast meal. They will place one or more types of food on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein two or more pieces of bread serve as a container or wrapper for some other food.

Sandwiches are a widely popular type of lunch food, typically taken to work, school, or picnics. But is it suitable for CKD patients to eat sandwiches?

CKD patients should pay more attention to their diet. Or they will suffer from chronic renal insufficiency, renal failure, even end stage renal failure (ESRF). With the aggravation of the disease, many symptoms and complications will appear and affect patients’ body organs and systems.

Sandwiches is mainly composed of 2 slices of bread, a few rashers of meat, cheese and all kinds of spices and so on. It is very popular in western countries. It has special taste for the different ingredients.

But it is not good to chronic kidney disease patients. High vegetable protein and fat will increase patients’ renal damage or even worsen the impaired kidneys. Although there are some cheese that can improve patients’ physical condition, sandwiches are not good for patients’ disease condition. Therefore chronic kidney disease patients should eat sandwiches as few as possible.