Why Should Diabetes Nephropathy Patients Limit Their Diet During Dialysis

Diabetes nephropathy is one of the complications of diabetes, which is also the leading cause to kidney failure. And generally speaking, diabetic nephroapthy patients will take dialysis early even with the same high creatinine level of other kinds of kidney disease. So there are many complications will occur during the course of dialysis, but patients can remit these complications through a limited diet. Today, we will have a analysis about the diet and dialysis.

As the common kidney disease, diabetes nephropathy have become a nettlesome puzzle to many people.

In the end stage of diabetes nephropathy, western medicine will suggest patients to receive dialysis and customize recipes according to different condition. However, why should diabetes nephropathy patients limit their diet during dialysis? Experts said that there are several explanations for the question.

1. To maintain the balance of nitrogen.

2. To avoid the excessive water intake due to hyperglycemia and hypernatremia.

3. Doses of insulin or oral agents may need to be adjusted for patients with dialysis to avoid hyperkalemia and hyperlipidaemia. With the decrease of kidney function, the need of insulin to diabetes nephropathy patients will reduce as well, it’s because of the reduce of renal insulin metabolism, renal insulin clearance and muscle insulin intake as well as the extension of exogenous insulin half-life. The increase of insulin demand for ESRD patients may related to neoglycogenesis and glucogenesis’ augment.

In fact, diabetes nephropathy patients do not have to undergo dialysis all their life, combine therapy of Chinese medicine and western medicine can help them get rid of dialysis and return to society gradually.


All in all, diabetic nephroapthy patients with dialysis really need a limited diet which not only good for their kidney and other tissues, which also can remit these complications brought by dialysis. And at last, if you want to know more information about diabetic nephropathy diet, treatment, and so on, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you as soon as possible.