Notso wrote:Just out of interest, as soon as I hit Stage 5 I was told to watch my diet. Avoid the potassium, phosphorus and of course sodium. There must be differing schools of thought with regard to the treatment of CKD I suppose.
Did you get an appointment with a dietician, certainly as kidneys fail they stop controlling Potassium, and Phosphate, Sodium I would expect to be eliminated from your diet long before stage 5.
The problem with Potassium, and Phosphate is, dialysis is not very good at removing/controlling them but both, at the correct level, are essential to life.
In this area of the UK. they tend to leave them alone until the patient is on dialysis or blood results suggest action needs to be taken, in either case diet is supervised by a dietician. Perhaps, supervised is a bit strong, the intention is that the patient and dietician work together to get the patients levels within safe limits.