Eating problems: tips for kidney patients to improve food intake

Summer heat got your appetite? Trying to eat when you don’t feel like it is difficult, but thanks to the DaVita renal dietitian team there’s a list of suggestions to help kidney patients deal with eating problems.

People in later stages of chronic kidney disease and those on dialysis often experience eating problems related to poor appetite, altered taste, feeling full or too tired to prepare food and eat. Add the summer heat to these eating difficulties and you may be at risk for muscle wasting and undesired weight loss. Inadequate calorie and nutrient intake causes deficiencies of  important vitamins and minerals, weakness and lack of energy, and low albumin, a sign of protein depletion.

Try these suggestions when you or your loved one with kidney disease is experiencing eating problems. Read more…