Before you eat and drink a lot during the Mid-Autumn Festival, please check this dietary guide!

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Song Dynasty and is one of my country's traditional festivals. In modern times, the Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion. When the moon is full on August 15, relatives and friends gather together to prepare a table of sumptuous food and wine to share joy and reunion. However, at such a beautiful moment, kidney patients begin to have difficulties. How should they eat? Can they eat? Today, let's take a detailed look at what you need to pay attention to in your diet during the festival.

Can patients with kidney disease eat mooncakes?

If you don't eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the flavor of the Mid-Autumn Festival will be half gone. So can kidney patients eat mooncakes? The answer is yes, but try to eat less, don't eat too much, and only eat less than 1/4 of the mooncake at a time. Because mooncakes are typical high-fat, high-potassium, high-sugar, and high-phosphorus foods, such as the common five-nut mooncakes and red bean paste mooncakes, they are not suitable for kidney patients. Therefore, kidney patients must follow the principle of eating less mooncakes. At the same time, it should be noted that fruit and vegetable mooncakes are a type of mooncake filled with fresh fruits and vegetables. Although they are delicious, they contain a lot of potassium. Patients with renal insufficiency have limited potassium excretion capacity. Eating too much will increase blood potassium, which is very dangerous. In addition, many people like to eat fresh meat mooncakes, but fresh meat mooncakes are rich in protein. Eating more may increase azotemia and accelerate renal failure, so they should be eaten as little as possible.

Can patients with kidney disease drink alcohol?

Many kidney patients think that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather together and everyone drinks, they think it is okay to drink less. However, kidney patients must remember that they must not drink alcohol, because the alcohol contained in alcohol is irritating, and alcohol is brewed from rice, sorghum and other grains, which has high calories. Once kidney patients drink alcohol, it will increase the burden on the kidneys, which is not conducive to the recovery of the patient's condition. Therefore, kidney patients should not drink alcohol during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Can kidney disease patients eat seafood?

Fish, shrimp, and hairy crab are also considered standard for the holidays. Many kidney patients say that they cannot eat anything during the holidays and have to restrict themselves. Does that mean there is no food they can eat? In fact, most kidney patients can eat fish, shrimp, and crab, but they should still eat less. It should be noted that for patients with a large amount of proteinuria or elevated serum creatinine, the amount of fish they eat needs to be limited; kidney patients with gout, severe immune diseases, and allergic constitutions need to be careful about the consumption of shrimp; crabs are high-cholesterol foods and have a high protein content. If kidney patients eat too much crabs, they will not only suffer from hyperlipidemia, but also accelerate renal failure, so the consumption of crabs should still be controlled.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, kidney disease patients should not ignore their health because of temporary happiness and reunion. They should seriously follow the doctor's advice and eat more foods that are beneficial to the body and the development of the disease.