I was put on a renal diet with so many restrictions... I feel like I am not eating healthy anymore: no vegetables, juices etc. What about the 5 a day?
Plus I also need to cut down salt when even the salt alternatives are rich in potassium?!
Can anyone else relate?
not all veggies are high in pottassium you have to have some you need to cut out the salt altogether if you can the worst fruit & veg are ones with skins on ie jacket potato, tomato & bananas for some reason! soak your veg before cooking & rinse a few times this helps instant coffee is another culprit! a good website for renal diet tips is an american one called devita! good luck
Yes kcrave i can relate very well. I went off salt bananas.tomatoes. potatoes. all milk cream and ice cream. Stone Fruit as well. My creatinine came down and my gfr has taken me from 4th grade to threspecialist doesn't want to see me for a year. It shows it dpes pay to follow good advice and try to be happy about it. .... it is your life make the best of it and smile. ... good luck xx
Vaw777
Hi. Last year my bowel was scanned and found that I had a stricture (a narrowing of the bowel cavity) but they also found I had this thing on my kidney. The consultant said it had to be removed and it was in February this year. I was told there was a 90% chance it was cancer. It wasn't, it was a nephroma...apparently they mimic cancer. I am now awaiting to have a bowel resection and have been told to eat a low fibre diet. I recently had a kidney function test and it was 37 gfr then two weeks later it was 36 gfr. Any suggestions how I can deal with the bowel and kidney problem. I am trying to lose weight and exercise but it is quite difficult as I feel so unwell with this bowel problem. Any advice? Thanks xx
Read my reply to kcrave and see a kidney dietician immediately. It helps enormously to follow her suggestions. The very Best to you and keep looking up. .. vaw 777xx
Read my reply to kcrave and see a kidney dietician immediately. It helps enormously to follow her suggestions. The very Best to you and keep looking up. .. vaw 777xx
Read my reply to kcrave and see a kidney dietician immediately. It helps enormously to follow her suggestions. The very Best to you and keep looking up. .. vaw 777xx
You should not be substituting salt, just reducing it.
You SHOULD see a dietician and be given full advice on what you CAN eat, and how to prepare veg to reduce potassium.
There are several recommended renal diet/cookbooks available as well as the American Davita Diet and recipe pages:
davita.com/kidney-disease/d...
See the left hand menu bar for recipes, lots of info.. And so on.
I can relate - you are not going on to a totally healthy diet but as my doctors told me - we are trying to keep u alive while we try to find a transplant for you!
I wrote a book about it all if you want to read it for free.
Cutting out salt is hard but I've found herbs can give food the flavour I miss.
chilli also helps to give many dishes a punch.
My worries about CKD are now secondary
Ckd stages and renal failure
Confused about diet 
Newly diagnosed and confused about diet ckd stage 3
CKD Stage 3, but normal diet is enough (?)
