Why Should Uremia Patients Be on High-calories Diet

Why should patients with uremia be on high-calories diet? There are many reasons, let me explain in detail. First, patients with uremia are always required to restrict protein intake, because reducing protein intake can bring down blood urea nitrogen, duly relieve symptoms of uremia. Since protein intake is reduced, patients should eat more food with enough carbohydrate and fat so as to ensure that patients can get enough energy supply, besides, high-calories intake can also help reduce protein disintegration so that nitrogen in patients who are on low-protein diet can be fully used, duly reducing consumption of protein. Something worthy mentioning is that energy intake also should be appropriate, because too much energy intake, on contrary, can lead to hyperlipidemia and arterosclerosis, etc, and too less can lead to malnutrition. Generally speaking, for patients with uremia should take in at least 125.6kj/KG body weight each day, yet the slimmer or fatter can take more or less according to their specific condition. And in order to get enough energy, patients can eat more plant oil and edible sugar. And if they still feel hungry, some sweet food, apple, lotus powder can feed them. And the food they eat should be rich in vitamin B, C and folic acid. Above is the explanation for why patients with uremia should be on high-calories diet, which I hope is helpful for those kind of patients.