Protein restriction recommendations

[Guest guest]

For those of you who are interested in this subject, the following link will

take you to an up-to-date review of low-protein diets in renal disease.

There are both pros, and cons, some positive evidence, some neutral, and

some negative.

As usual, caution must be exercised with diets of any kind when you have

chronic renal disease. So, while this is interesting information, I don't

think ANYONE should adopt ANY dietary strategies without the specific advice

of his or her nephrologist. In fact, if you read the article, you will

probably understand more why caution and professional guidance is necessary.

This especially applies to the many among our members who are in nephrotic

syndrome.

http://www.uptodate.com/html/JASN/june_01/topics/5224O1.htm

I can't just post the article itself because of copyright reasons, so, if

you want to keep a copy, I suggest you just " save as " the page for personal

use on your hard disk.

Pierre

[Guest guest]

Okay, I have never gone to medical school and have no clue what that

article said, even though I have a high IQ! So Pierre, what was your

take on it? Does it mainly say, " We really have no clue if a low-

protein diet will help you or not " ?

When you come right down to it, it seems I can basically do

absolutely nothing for my IGAN but to take my blood pressure medicine

every day. I do take vitamin E daily as well, just because I read it

can be good for kidney patients. But I never see my nephrologist, I

mean, what good does it do? He can't do anything to fix the IGAN

either, so it's pointless to go in there. I haven't seen my neph in

about 3 years!

Teri in Texas

[Guest guest]

A good book on kidney diets is Living Well, Eating Well with Kidney Disease, by Steve Schwab and Dorothy Bartholomay (from Duke Univ.), published in 1997 by Viking Press. It covers non-dialysis and dialysis diets regarding protein, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus. It also talks about high quality protein vs. low quality protein.

Betsy, from Colorado