After Kidney Transplant, the patients should pay more attention to their
daily life so as to guarantee a good effect of Kidney Transplant. Here I will
list some notices for the patients after Kidney Transplant and hope these are
helpful for you.
1. Keep a low-salt diet
Besides keeping 1~2 days of fluid diet after Kidney Transplant, they should
also keep a low-salt diet and keep the salt intake within 4~6 g/d. About 90% of
the patients with End Stage Renal Failure have hypertension history and also
have myocardial hypertrophy and even heart failure. After operation, most of the
patients need using immunosuppressive agents, they often have high blood
pressure in varying degrees. A low-salt diet is beneficial to the control of
high blood pressure. Moreover, a low-salt diet also can alleviate the retention
of water and sodium caused by immunosuppressive agents.
2. Limit the sugar intake strictly
The patients should keep proper sweet foods intake after operation and have
fruits within 150~200 g/d and usually should not exceed 250g per day. If the
patients use immunosuppressive agents over time, eating much sugar foods can
induce Diabetes.
3. Limit bean products
Within 3~6 months after Kidney Transplant, the patients should avoid eating
bean, bean products and eating too much high-protein foods such as fish, eggs,
lean meat and beef. As in the recovery period of kidney, eating too much protein
can increase too much burden to kidneys.
4. Keep proper cholesterol intake
Immunosuppressive agents may cause hyperlipidaemia thus leading to
arteriosclerosis. Therefore, the patients should eat more light food and less
greasy food. In addition, they should also limit food with high cholesterol such
as yolk and animal offal.
5. Avoid having food that can help improve immunity
The patients after Kidney Transplant should avoid eating food or health
products that can help them improve immunity. In some cases, the patients have
food for improving immunity, which cause acute rejection reaction and then the
transplanted lose its function.
In order to improve the function of transplanted kidney, the patients should
pay more attention to their daily care and do as their doctors told them.