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Diet for kidney disease

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68y Man Looking at The "Low-protein Recipes for Kidney Disease" Published by NHK: I do not know how to start diet while my doctor directed me a diet with 2000kcal energy and 50g protein.

A doctor gives instruction of the diet but does not tell all about the cooking. First of all, let's understand the status of your kidneys by yourself. Next, you can learn how to cook in our seminars and cooking clubs. It is very important to learn how to cook properly not by a self-taught. We recommend you to participate in our seminar and cooking club. "

Mr. Y from Shizuoka Prefecture: It is difficult to understand the "unit" while I received the instruction of nutritional guidance in the hospital. What should I do to reduce BUN?

You told us that you have no experience of using starch products. First, let's change your staple food to starch products. Although It looks like easy to calculate by the unit, you need to carry on a diet with foods accurately weighed and calculated using the food composition table. Also, you should record the details. Please consult with the hospital's nutritionists.

Man in the age of 62 with Cr 3.9 and BUN 32, who spends a busy life as an executive of the company so that can not say NO about having working dinners, does not want to go into dialysis before his retirement age. His wife does her best to prevent the progress of his kidneys dysfunction by cooking his staple food with starch products.

The most important thing for diet therapy is awareness of the situation himself! Please do not let your wife and other people work hard on the prevention. It is also effective to exchange information and learn the art of cooking in the cooking classes. Please do not hesitate to call us if you have any questions.

A from Tokyo: Has spent many years while holding the anxiety about his disease. Having the medical examination by Dr. Ideura, my mind became clear immediately. Feels like that my goal was found. I would like to learn a lot while having fun.

K from Yamanashi Prefecture: It has been said to "eat boiled vegetables".

There are benefits and disadvantages to each. "Patients with higher value of potassium need to care about taking much raw vegetables while the ones contain rich in nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. The disadvantage of boiled vegetables is loosing minerals and enzymes, which sometimes leads intake of more quantity of proteins without noticing as a result of eating much more boiled ones. Each situation is different in each person. Please call us to know more about the details.

Ms. Y from Kanagawa Prefecture: After the immediate hospitalization by nausea and poor appetite in a bad health with Cr 6 and BUN 65, re-examination told me Cr 6.8! My doctor told me the risk of going into dialysis so that I joined the cooking class at Odawara, February 13, 2010.

Thank you for your participation to our cooking class. Discretion of the diet yourself is very dangerous in every respect. There are a lot of cases that persons, who thought to have understood everything by joining a cooking class once or twice, failed to prevent their disease progression and got into a severe stage, from which you can never back to the stable stage. Please note that diet therapy of kidney disease should be carried out firmly based on the instructions by medical doctors and registered dietitians.

H from Tokyo: At first, I thought I was eating starch rice as a drug, but now I think 140g of delicious starch rice every morning. Hypertension led to the chronic kidney disease in my case. Sometimes Cr rose by more than two when the medications for the blood pressure have been changed. I became interested in medicine as well.

Half people say that starch rice is very delicious while others say that they could not eat such non-tasteful rice. Actually, starch products are delicious to eat if you learn the art of cooking. Starch rice with flour rice has been developed to make a diet easier. It would be easier for beginners to start by retort foods.

S from Nagano Prefecture: I was diagnosed with chronic renal failure from a medical doctor, followed by instruction to start a diet of 40g protein and 1600kcal. However, I do not know how to do because there is no one around to ask.

Ask the Shinonoi hospital in Nagano Prefecture, one of the recommended hospitals for a diet for kidney diseases.

Warning to the diet of kidney disease (!)
Case of 74-year-old woman blood pressure had been high for more than 10 years in internal medicine outpatient: Her body weight became 35kg with no appetite in last October. Blood examination results in blood pressure 170, Cr 2.8, BUN 58. She read various home medical books and told her doctor that she might have bad kidneys. The doctor told her that let's keep watching how the parameters would go because it seemed to be stable and did not move worse. She started on a diet in her own way as she bought a book for diet in chronic kidney disease in a bookstore, but she lost appetite. Once again, medical check in January 6 showed Cr. 3.4 and blood pressure 180.

There are a lot of books for diet of kidney disease in bookstore. Please note, however, that diet therapy for kidney disease should be firmly based on treatment by medical doctors and registered dietitians. Selfish diet is highly dangerous in every respect. There are a lot of cases that persons, who thought to have understood everything by joining a cooking class once or twice, failed to prevent their disease progression and got into a severe stage, from which you can never back to the stable stage.

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