Diet Tips For Patients After Kidney Transplant

2. OVERVIEW After undergoing a major kidney transplant or surgery, patients have to cope with many things and take many precautions to ensure that the donor’s kidney starts functioning to the optimum. Other than doing exercise to keep the body weight under control, patients have to pay special attention to take a healthy, balanced diet.

3. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO AVOID CERTAIN FOODS? No matter you have been to one of the best kidney transplant hospitals in India, you need to take some health precautions and avoid certain foods. Now the question is which foods to avoid?

4. FOOD TO AVOID AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT Keep “Use by Date” in mind and avoid meat, poultry and fish accordingly. Besides this, also avoid raw or under cooked prawns or shrimp, crab, crayfish, squid, oysters, clams and mussels.

5. FRUITS TO AVOID Once patients have undergone a kidney transplant, they should avoid using some fruits, as well as vegetables. They should avoid grapefruit and pomegranate when taking some specific immunosuppressive medications.

6. OTHER PRECAUTIONS We should wash hands after touching raw chicken or eggs and also avoid eating outside, that may leads high risk of kidney disease and cause infection.

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