Medical Kitchen© is your one-stop for eating healthy while living with renal illness in the UAE.
Medical Kitchen understands the difficulties faced by UAE residents with renal disease as they adjust to a "new normal" that involves different eating, drinking, and nutrition requirements.
We launched Medical Kitchen - a website dedicated to helping people with kidney illness navigate healthy eating – after receiving numerous questions, concerns, and anecdotes regarding diet and nutrition from people with kidney disease.
Medical Kitchen focuses on what you can eat and drink instead of what you can't because you should be able to make positive food and fluid choices without feeling weighed down or frustrated.
In Medical Kitchen you will discover and comprehend what each nutrient implies for persons with renal illness, as well as how much of these nutrients are found in common foods. Learn what good nutrition entails for persons with kidney illness at any stage, including those on dialysis and those who have had a kidney transplant.
Check out some fundamental and practical cooking skills, as well as some cooking tricks for those with renal illness. Also, download our guidelines and test out a variety of kidney-friendly recipes.
Food guides
Medical Kitchen© determined the values of low, medium, and high potassium, phosphorus, sodium, and protein in foods using the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines for Nutrition in Chronic Renal Failure.
Disclaimer
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Medical Kitchen© is not intended to diagnose a disease or advise an eating regimen based on your kidney disease stage. The information offered was created by renal nutrition experts and is provided solely for educational reasons. If you have specific issues with your nutrition, please visit a medical practitioner or a licensed dietician.
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Foods and nutrients are absorbed and processed differently in each person's body. The same daily nutrient guidelines will not or should not be followed by everyone with kidney disease. Recipes with a "low" or "moderate" amount of a nutrient may be just fine for some people, but far too much for others.
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Consult a dietician before making any dietary adjustments. Some health insurance companies will cover dietitian consultations for persons with renal disease who are in the early stages. Whether you do in-center or home dialysis, your dialysis facility will supply you with a dietician if you are on dialysis. Call the phone number on the back of your insurance card, or look it up online, to see if a dietitian consultation is covered by your health insurance plan, and ask to talk with a representative about your plan.
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A dietitian can recommend which blood tests you should take and can go over the results with you to help you understand your true potassium and phosphorus levels. If protein is getting into your urine, a urine test can detect it. A dietitian can give you a clearer sense of how much of particular nutrients you should be taking in food and beverages based on the results of these tests. Inquire with your dietician about the amounts of nutrients you should consume on a daily basis to keep healthy. Make a mental note of this amount or save it to your phone so you don't forget!