PHOSPHORUS AND KIDNEY DISEASE

What is phosphorus?
- phosphorus is a minerals which help to keep bones strong and healthy.

What is the relationship between phosphorus and kidney disease?
- decline in kidney function lead to a rise in phosphate blood level which causing itchy skin, painful joints and loss of calcium from bone. Thus, those who have kidney disease have to limit amount of high and moderate phosphate- containing food.

Below are some guidelines for kidney patient in choosing phosphate food in their diet.

PHOSPHORUS GUIDELINE FOR CHOOSING FOOD
Instead of these higher phosphorus food	… you can eat these lower phosphorus food
Dairy and dairy-substitutes
8 ounces milk	8 ounces non-dairy creamer or 4 ounces milk
½ cup ice cream	½ cup sherbet (sorbet) or 1 popsicle
½ cup custard or pudding made with milk	½ cup pudding or custard made with non-dairy creamer
Malted milk	Tea, hot apple cider
Brown rice	White rice, barley
Biscuits: store-bought, mixes and refrigerated	Biscuits: homemade (use baking powder substitute below**)
Muffins: all store-bought, mixes, and homemade bran and oat bran flavours	Muffins: homemade, made with white flour (use baking powder substitute below**)
Meat and other proteins
Carp, crayfish, beef liver, chicken liver, fish roe, organ meats, oysters, sardines	Unseasoned beef, chicken, pork, turkey, veal, fish, eggs
Fruit and vegetables
Lima or pinto beans	Mixed vegetables or green beans
Dried fruits, prunes, prune juice	Fresh or canned fruits such as apples, pears, berries, grapes, watermelon, pineapple
Beverages
Cola soft drinks	Non-cola soft drinks (ginger ale, lemon/lime flavoured soda, root beer)
Iced tea with phosphate additives	Homemade iced tea
Cocoa, hot chocolate	Tea, hot apple cider
Snacks and miscellaneous items
Peanuts	Unsalted popcorns
Nuts, peanut butter, sesame or sunflower seeds; avoid pumpkin seeds	Unsalted popcorn, unsalted pretzels, unsalted corn chips
Chocolate bars	Hard candy, fruit flavoured candy or jelly beans

**Since baking powder is high in phosphorus, try this low phosphorus alternative: use ¼ tsp baking soda + ½ tsp cream of tartar instead of 1 tsp baking powder

do consume variety of vegetables!

list of high phosphorus food

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