A low-salt diet is enormously important in kidney disease and also after a successful kidney transplant. It lowers blood pressure, ensures that blood pressure-lowering medications work better, and thus plays a major role in keeping your new kidney functioning well for as long as possible.
Your diet and drinking habits are incredibly important as a dialysis patient - you should adapt them compared to your time before dialysis. They influence your well-being during dialysis and in your everyday life.
Reducing your drinking amount each day is probably the biggest challenge for many people on dialysis, especially in the beginning. Here you can find out why this is so important, which drinking amounts are recommended and what could help you to reduce your drinking amount.
A low-salt diet is enormously important for kidney disease. It lowers blood pressure, ensures that blood pressure lowering medication works better and reduces your thirst.
Sodium is responsible for regulating your blood pressure and water balance in the human body. Since these two often get out of hand with kidney disease, a low-salt diet is often recommended. In this article, you will find practical tips on how you can easily manage this.
Probably the most difficult challenge for many dialysis patients is reducing the amount they drink each day. This is not surprising, as many patients are often recommended to drink less than one litre of water per day. However, this is incredibly important for your health and there are a number of practical tips that can support you in your controlled drinking behaviour.
Nutrition and dialysis are not the best of friends, especially at first. Suddenly you have to pay attention to a lot of things, reduce some things and increase others in order to compensate. Here are a few simple tips to get you started on a dialysis-friendly diet!
If you are on dialysis, you have probably asked yourself why you have to weigh yourself so frequently. Here are the basics about it.
A low-salt diet is enormously important in kidney disease. It lowers blood pressure, ensures that blood pressure-lowering medications work better, and reduces your thirst.
In most cases, your drinking restrictions will be lifted after transplantation. This means that you can and should drink normally again. Despite this newfound freedom, you drinking quantity is still important after transplantation. In this article, you will learn why your drinking quantity is important and how to keep an eye on it.
After the kidney transplant you can let the water flow! Your drinking quantity restrictions from the times during dialysis no longer apply. Now it is usually important to drink enough fluids for your new kidney. Particularly in the first period after the transplantation, a so-called balance sheet is prepared to better control your fluid balance and the function of your new kidney. This is an overview of the fluid you excrete and the fluid you consume. In this article you will learn exactly how this works and what you need to keep in mind.
For many people, the time after a kidney transplant means much more normality in everyday life compared to the time on dialysis. In this article, you will find out what changes you will have to make to your diet and what will remain unchanged in return.
The diet for early-stage kidney disease often requires a number of changes. In this article, you'll learn exactly what these are and how you can easily keep track of them with the help of a few little tricks and the Mizu app.
