Renal Dietitians! What Do You Do?

Every hospital has a dietitian, and renal dietitians are the one who has expert knowledge in renal disease and its stages and management and knows to control rapid failure of your kidney through diet modifications. Diet plays a huge role in dialysis patients and renal dietitians guide the renal failure and dialysis patients to a right path leading to a better quality of life.

Let me tell you why you should consult a renal dietitian if you are a dialysis patient.

IDENTIFIES

Renal dietitians identify your nutritional problems and evaluate your nutritional status.

EXAMINES

Renal dietitian goes through your laboratory results, medication list, and your Intra Dialytic Weight Gain and makes action diet plan for you.

ANALYZES

Renal Dietitian analyze your protein and calorie intake, albumin and potassium levels and they are responsible for your vitamins, nutrition supplements, phosphorus, calcium and parathyroid hormone levels, phosphorus binding medications, sodium and fluid restrictions.

ACTION DIET PLAN

Develops diet plan and counsel you on special diet modifications. Every individual will have different dietary requirements and what’s good for one may be harmful to another. After an initial consultation with a dietitian, you will have your own individual diet plan which will be reviewed and changed when necessary.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Renal Dietitian evaluates your diet plan, support and actively encourages you and helps you to increase your quality of life and provide strategies for prevention of nutrition-related diseases and Improves your quality of life by providing sensible dietary advice to meet nutritional requirements without compromising your safety.

EDUCATE

Educate healthcare staff, patients, and relatives and cares to improve and share knowledge using methods to ease understanding and aid learning.