- If the person in undergoing dialysis treatment diet becomes an important part of the management.
- Staying at a healthy body weight, and getting right amt of calories and protein is very important.
- Eating right amt of calories each day will help maintain adequate wt.
- Add sugars, jams, jelly, sago rice as extra sweets in diet. add a wide variety of food to include vitamins and minerals. also restrict fluids.
- Monitor other important nutrients in your diet like Sodium, potassium, vitamins and minerals.
- Sodium rich food like table salt, soy sauce, canned food, processed meat, salted snacks, namkeen etc to be restricted.
- To restrict fluid remember any food or baverage liquid at room temprature. This includes ice, icecream, gravies, dals etc.
- Potassium containing foods, fruits like bananas, melon oranges and vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, including milk products etc has to be restricted.
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.""The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine."
Jan 22, 2010
Dialysis Food Pyramid
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Good post doc.
ReplyDeletePlease keep posting more frequent so that we will get more benefited and healthier.
If you could give traditional food for specific health ailment like what to eat during fever any successful recipe will also be appreciated like for diarrhea one is advised to take gruel (tell how to prepare) carrot soup etc so that this traditional Indian remedies can be documented which is what getting lost Hope to find articles on these soon
ReplyDeletehello vishku..1st thing u didnt mention what stage of fever.if stage of high fever,u can give only liquid diet recipes like sweetened juice.in high fever,patient dont take interest to take some modified diet.but patient want to eat different then take apple stew which also seen in gruel form and its also useful in diarrhoea.
ReplyDeleteGruel is not a single dish,its can make from many vegetables,fruits,cereals,its thinner version of porridge.
hello vishku,i want to tell u that gruel is perticular food preparation of cereals.and apple stew is not a gruel and made by apple which is fruit.but we can take dis in gruel form.gruel mean thinner porridge.its method to prepare..take any cereals wheat,oats or rice which u like.and boil in water or milk.and mix sugar and some flavour as elaichi etc according to taste.
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