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From: Pete on 13 Jun 2005 12:12
Personally, I've tried a number of renal/dialysis cookbooks, and to be
honest, there hasn't been too many recipes I've actually liked enough to
keep using them. I just eat normal food, just less of certain things.

If you don't have access to a renal dietician, the local chapter of the
Kidney Foundation should have some or, at least a list.

Pierre


From: Larry Krzewinski on 13 Jun 2005 14:56
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:12:59 -0400, "Pete" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Personally, I've tried a number of renal/dialysis cookbooks, and to be
>honest, there hasn't been too many recipes I've actually liked enough to
>keep using them. I just eat normal food, just less of certain things.
>
>If you don't have access to a renal dietician, the local chapter of the
>Kidney Foundation should have some or, at least a list.
>
>Pierre

That's what I did, Pierre, when I was on dialysis. Once I discovered
that "Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used" listed
the amounts of potassium, phosphorus, sodium and other nutritional
data of just about everything I ate I was able to eat anything but had
to watch portion size. I asked the dietician at dialysis what my
daily limits of potassium, phosphorus, and sodium were and as long as
I stayed under those limits I was able to pretty much throw my renal
diet out the window. Knowledge is power.

From: plz.spam.here on 13 Jun 2005 15:27
Here's the best online database of foods that I know of:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

The database must be quite huge and it lists the mineral, vitamin,
protein, etc content for all the foods in it.

> That's what I did, Pierre, when I was on dialysis. Once I discovered
> that "Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used" listed
> the amounts of potassium, phosphorus, sodium and other nutritional
> data of just about everything I ate I was able to eat anything but had
> to watch portion size. I asked the dietician at dialysis what my
> daily limits of potassium, phosphorus, and sodium were and as long as
> I stayed under those limits I was able to pretty much throw my renal
> diet out the window. Knowledge is power.

From: Tom Gower on 14 Jun 2005 09:51
I'm with you guys, I eat almost anything I want. Of course I
limit things like tomatoes, cantaloupe, Coke and Pepsi. What I do is eat
these things in moderation, then I see how my labs look every month, and
if my potassium or phosphorous is starting to increase, I cut out those
foods. But I must say, that for the past year, all my labs have been
very good, with the exception of having low calcium. So the dietician
told me to eat two Tums evey night before I went to bed.

I'm curious about the meds you guys are on. Here is a list of
what I take, perhaps you could share what you're on with the rest of us.

The following were prescriped by my nephrologist.

Renagel-Tabs-------800mg 2/with meals
Protonix---------------40mg 1 a day
Sensipar---------------30mg 1 a day (very expensive. $10.00 a pill)
Glad I have a prescription plan from my former employer.
Nephrocaps------------------1 a day. This is a vitamin...












It's not how many times we have tried and failed that matter, but
whether we tried at all.
TOM G




From: Larry Krzewinski on 14 Jun 2005 19:05
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:51:03 -0400, patriark363(a)webtv.net (Tom Gower)
wrote:

> I'm with you guys, I eat almost anything I want. Of course I
>limit things like tomatoes, cantaloupe, Coke and Pepsi. What I do is eat
>these things in moderation, then I see how my labs look every month, and
>if my potassium or phosphorous is starting to increase, I cut out those
>foods. But I must say, that for the past year, all my labs have been
>very good, with the exception of having low calcium. So the dietician
>told me to eat two Tums evey night before I went to bed.
>
> I'm curious about the meds you guys are on. Here is a list of
>what I take, perhaps you could share what you're on with the rest of us.
>
> The following were prescriped by my nephrologist.
>
> Renagel-Tabs-------800mg 2/with meals
> Protonix---------------40mg 1 a day
> Sensipar---------------30mg 1 a day (very expensive. $10.00 a pill)
>Glad I have a prescription plan from my former employer.
> Nephrocaps------------------1 a day. This is a vitamin...

Since I'm not on dialysis anymore and have had a liver and a kidney
transplant my meds are very different now. I'm on 15 different
prescriptions plus four prescribed vitamins.
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