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.
If your blood potassium levels are too high, you should make sure that you do not take in too much potassium with your food. But what exactly is potassium and why is it so important for people on dialysis?
Many people with kidney disease are told by their doctor to reduce potassium in their diet, but in practice, everything edible contains potassium. Here are some practical, simple tips for living more potassium-conscious in your everyday life and an explanation of why this is so important if you are living with chronic kidney disease or are undergoing dialysis treatment.
Many patients with chronic kidney disease are advised to eat a low-potassium diet. But what foods actually contain how much potassium? This article gives you an overview and a few basic rules about the most important food categories.
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!
Potatoes contain a lot of potassium. You may have heard or read about putting potatoes in water overnight, slicing them, double boiling them, freezing them, swapping out the cooking water, etc. to draw out potassium. Here are some details on what actually works.
Potassium and phosphate are the main focus of dialysis nutrition. But what about after transplantation and what guidelines apply here? Is a low-phosphate and low-potassium diet important here too, or do other rules apply?
Especially with advanced kidney disease, your blood potassium levels can rise. If your blood potassium levels are too high, you should definitely make sure that you do not take in too much potassium through your food. But what exactly is the connections between potassium and kidney disease?
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.
