Nutritional management of kidney diseases in children

• T.E. Borovik
• E.K. Kutafina
• A.N. Tsygin
• T.V. Sergeeva
• A.A. Baranov
• L.S. Namazova-Baranova
• T.S. Voznesenskaya
• Irina N. Zakharova
• N.N. Semenova
• N.G. Zvonkova
• Segrey P. Yatsyk

Abstract

The prevalence of various kidney diseases in children remains high in recent decades. Adequate nutrition management can enhance the effectiveness of drug treatment, slow the frequency of relapses and prevent the progression of the disease. The article is devoted to modern approaches to diet therapy in various kidney diseases in children – with the defeat of tubular and glomerular apparatus. For the first time the therapeutic diets for children with various kidney diseases are presented. Particular attention is paid to diet therapy in nephrotic syndrome (steroid-responsive and steroid-refractory). Dietary approaches with modern formulas for enteral nutrition in cases of steroid therapy complications in children with renal insufficiency (in predialysis stage and on dialysis) are described. Differentiated nutritional approaches for patients with different types of crystalluria are separately presented.

Keywords:chronic kidney disease, chronic renal insufficiency, glomerulonephritis, crystalluria, nutritional management, children

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