Egg is praised as ideal nutrition, which is favored by many people attributes to abundant vitamin, mineral and protein therein. However, can patients eat it in Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3?
Chronic Kidney Disease, or CKD, is long-term renal damage with refractory and protracted diseased course for more than 3 months, which has long plagued experts in medical area attributes to its high morbidity and mortality that patients suffer from increasingly serious clinical features from slight pathological changes to severe internal and external damage attribute to varying diseased causes, regions and degrees.
Chronic Kidney Disease stage 3 is medium period therein, which behaves as kidney related symptoms as well as systemic complications of multiple tissue and organs. In a word, it is crucial epoch for patients to be reversed with timely and effective treatment, otherwise, they will unavoidably enter into irreparable situation.
As main source of protein, egg is quite controversial for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease stage 3 to decide whether it is available. As a matter of fact, unilateral pros and cons are inadvisable. Specifically, excess protein intake leads to nitrogen retention, which increases BUN and worsens renal burden while continuous low plasma protein causes poor immunity, which turns out to be infection and repeating edema, thus aggravates current situation. Generally speaking, high quality protein with 0.4~0.6g/kg of weight is acceptable to maintain daily functional operation of human body.
All in all, the main principle for patients in Chronic Kidney Disease stage 3 is to strictly control the intake of high quality protein while avoid plant protein as much as possible.
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