Diet attentions should patients with nephrotic syndrome

1, Control salt intake: salt intake should according to patients’ swelling degree, high degree of swelling should control salt intake, swelling decreasing should control salt intake in 3g, when swelling disappears, plasma proteins recovers to normal level, you can give common diet.

2, control protein intake: nephrotic syndrome patients will discharge out  much of proteinuria, hypoproteinemia usually make colloid osmotic pressure decrease and then making swelling difficult to disappear. Resistance of our body also decreases. So patients should guarantee protein intake in 0.7g-1.0g/kg weight, which is good to relieve hypoproteinemia and complication.

3, fat: nephrotic syndrome often has hyperlipemia, Minor lesions in patients will turn better in a short term. So fat intake is not controlled. For patients with membranous nephropathy patients like membranous nephropathy, long term hyperlipemia is easy to cause to artery sclerosis. Therefore, they should control the intake of hoof, fat and animal fat.

4, intake of vitamin, calcium and micro-elements: due to glomerular base permeability increases in nephrotic syndrome patients, excepting from losing protein, some elements and hormone combining with protein will also lose, which can cause to short of calcium, magnesium, zinc and so on indirectly, we can use medicine and food to supplement.