What Should Patients with Glomerulonephritis Eat?

With the increasing of life standard, the people getting disease are more and more. Glomerulonephritis is a common kidney disease. Many patients suffering from the disease don’t know how to nurse themselves,especially on diet. Eating wrong food may worse the disease. So patients with glomerulonephritis should pay more attention to the diet. Reducing burden on diet is very helpful to the treatment of kidney disease.

Patients with edema and high blood pressure should follow no salt or low salt diet. Patients with azotemia should take 0.5g high quality protein per kg of body weight.

Patients also should control the intake of water which should be decided according to the amount of urine.

Patients should eat more vegetables and fruit rich in vitamin C, such as sweet pepper, rape,tomatoes and strawberry. Enough vitamin C is good for the recovery of nephritis.

Patients should limit the intake of protein and phosphorus. Patients with edema and high blood pressure should limit the intake of salt less than 3g per day as well as the intake of cholesterol and saturated fatty acid which would increase the burden of kidneys.