Patient was educated on foods to avoid on a renal diet as follows:
- Dairy products, such as, buttermilk, cottage cheese, and processed cheese are very high in salt content. Blue cheese, feta cheese, and halloumi cheese are varieties of cheese heavy in salt content. Avoid or observe strict moderation with consumption of these products, to be compliant with the recommendation for low salt intake.
- Strictly avoid all processed/cured/smoked/cold cut deli meats such as, hot dogs, sausages, ham, corned beef, bologna, salami, bratwurst, blood sausages, jerk meats, smoked fish, caviar, and liverwurst, as loads of salt are added to them during the processing and curing. Even while choosing to eat processed/cured/smoked/cold cut deli meats, pick the products with the label, reduced or low sodium.
- Avoid or observe strict moderation with all canned meats, such as, canned beef, canned chicken, and canned pork, as they are heavily loaded with sodium, to increase the shelf-life of the product on the store aisles. Even while choosing to pick canned meat items from the aisle, pick the products with the label, reduced or low sodium.
- Organ meats, such as, chicken liver, beef heart, and beef tongue are high in sodium content. Avoid or observe strict moderation with consumption of organ meat, to be compliant with the recommendation for low salt intake.
