The 5 tips that can help the patient with kidney failure to coexist better with the disease are:
- Control thirst by eating frozen fruit, sour candy, sucking lemon or pieces of ice;
- Improve the taste of food by seasoning with herbs such as parsley, basil, bay leaf, ginger, or lemon, for example.
- To practice a physical exercise of relaxation, like yoga, to help to relax;
- Share your problems with other patients with the same disease, in social networks or support groups, to help tackle the disease;
- Use low recipes in protein, potassium, phosphorus and salt.
See what you can and can not eat in kidney failure:
Renal insufficiency is a disease in which the kidney does not function properly and therefore can not eliminate toxins from the body, which can lead to symptoms such as weakness, itching or swelling in the body, for example.
Usually the patient has difficulties in accepting and living with the disease, as well as controlling thirst and eating meals because the diet of these patients is very restrictive, it is necessary to exclude salt and control the intake of liquids and some minerals such as potassium, sodium and phosphorus, for example.