Some basic points that patients should pay attention to their diets.
1. High-quality protein diet
2. A low-sugar diet
3. A low-sodium intake, especially when you have hypertension.
4. Vitamins and calcium are recommended to you.
5. Drink enough fluid to stay away dehydration.
6. Avoid smoking and alcohol.
7. Avoid medications that can affect kidneys, such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, aspirin, indomethacin and so on.
Eat the foods with high quality protein, such as egg white, lean meat and milk and so on. Because for patients with lupus nephritis, lots of protein is leaked into urine, leading to hypoproteinemia. Thus these people need to ingest enough high quality protein.
Lupus Nephritis patients often have poor appetite. For a long time, their health conditions may become very bad due to malnutrition. In this case, they can eat some grapes or raisin which is helpful for them to regain health, which is because in grapes there are various nutritional ingredients, like protein, amino acid and mineral substances.
Avoid eating seafood. Many lupus nephritis patients have allergic phenomenon when they eat these seafoods. This is because most of patients have high allergic constitution, eating seafoods can induce or worsen illness condition.
Patients should limit sugar intake, which can reduce the risk of diabetes. Such foods as wholewheat products, plant oil, carrot, cucumber and so on, are recommended to you.
Patients should avoid smoking and alcohol. Tobacco and alcohol contain many irritant ingredients which can increase the inflammatory in the body.
