Patient was educated on choice of foods for consideration on dialysis diet as follows:
- On vegetables, include more string beans, green beans, carrots, cucumbers, green peas, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, celery, onions, peppers, and spinach on your diet for their lower phosphorus content.
- On beverages, ginger ale, lemon soda, clear sodas, and sparkling water can be good choices for low phosphorus drinks. Among alcoholic beverages, you can count more on white wine, vodka, rum, gin, and whiskey to help compliance with low phosphorus intake recommendation.
- Observe moderation with intake of protein rich foods, such as, beef, pork, lamb, turkey, chicken, organ meats such as, liver, brain, & kidney, and processed meats like sausage, bacon, ham, jerky, and salami. Sea food, such as, tuna, cod, halibut, sardines, tilapia, salmon, anchovy, dried fish, & crab and animal & dairy products such as, eggs, milk, cheese, cottage cheese, and yogurt are also rich sources of protein, whose intake should be carefully watched on dialysis diet.
- Rich vegetable/vegan sources for protein include beans, such as, baked beans, kidney beans, lima beans, pinto beans, fava beans, and garbanzo beans. Various pulses, lentils, nuts, and seeds such as, green peas, chickpeas, beans, walnuts, cashew, brazil nuts, peanuts, pecans, almonds, macadamia nuts, pistachios, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, and chia seeds are good vegetable sources for protein. Observe moderation with intake of these rich protein sources, to exercise compliance with daily allowance of protein intake on dialysis diet.
