I couldn't belive my eyes

[awood1976]

today at dialysis a man ate
2 slim jims , a bag  of chips and a huge mountain dew
nobody said anything ..... is it just me or is this food not ok to eat?( too salty???)

[goofynina]

Wow    Not too sure of this guys situation but i do know on rare occasion a patients blood pressure could be low and sometimes they are required to add salt to their diet    and if he still urinates and is not a diabetic, then maybe he is able to drink that much fluid BUT then again, you do have those patients that just dont care and do what they want to do and eat and drink what they want (i should know, i was one of them)     Thank God for PD 

[Roxy]

I use to take a bag of chips to dialysis to help keep my bp from dropping too low. Also if he calculates the mountain dew into what they take off of him, then maybe it's okay.

[jbeany]

Slim Jim's aren't as bad on salt as you might think.  I take them to dialysis once in a while, too.  But potato chips and a dew?  Quite a snack altogether - too much fluid, caffeine, salt, potassium and phosphorus all in one snack!

[keefer51]

I take pretzels that i eat during the last hour of dialysis. That way my BP will go up a little. The only thing is i get even more thirsty afterwards! At my center i see a few people who bring what looks like a five course meal. Sandwhich, snackes, and big gulps!

[angela515]

today at dialysis a man ate
2 slim jims , a bag  of chips and a huge mountain dew
nobody said anything ..... is it just me or is this food not ok to eat?( too salty???)

Thank god you didn't see me at dialysis.  I would stop at a fast food place on the way sometimes, or the gas station and get snacks... Always took my binders and basically.. on hemo... i you saw me eaing, you would just be thankful  was eating, cause I aleways felt crappyand barely ate.. i'm sure if his labs are ok.. he ain't too concerned with eating stuff.

[thegrammalady]

i get up at 4:15am. much, much too early to eat breakfast. i take hardboiled eggs (2-3), fruit and some form of starch (rice cakes, muffins etc) with me. if i don't eat sometime during dialysis, i am sick before i get home around 10:30 or 11. sometimes i take something to drink, coffee or juice. some people bring big sodas, but i'm not sure they drink the entire thing. some even drink cokes. my doctor gets hysterical if he ever thinks i have coke. however i think its because a coke is empty nutrition. there is less phos in 12oz of coke than the chicken i'm supposed to eat (chicken is protine however and useful, coke is nothing, just phos and sugar) once in a while i'll eat potato chips, but sun chips is a better substitute if you wand crunch both on salt, potassium and phos. it's hard to make a judgement as we don't know what his levels are and then if he's eating things that are bad for him, if he wants to kill himself....................

[okarol]

Occasionally Jenna would take Burger King to dialysis, with a large beverage. She was still urinating so it didn't affect her fluid.
I know she got looks from other patients, but we were doing all we could to keep her weight up, she was so thin.

[Chicken Little]

Occasionally Jenna would take Burger King to dialysis, with a large beverage. She was still urinating so it didn't affect her fluid.
I know she got looks from other patients, but we were doing all we could to keep her weight up, she was so thin.

I have the sort of the same issue.  I don't drink enough to compensate for what I lose through dialysis and urinating.

I would go to McDonald's before every hemo treatment to get a large light lemonade and I'd drink the whole thing.   Now on PD, I drink as much as I can during the day, when I'm dry.  Once I fill I can't eat or drink.   

On hemo, I regularly saw patients around me scarf down chocolate and coke or pepsi.  They were pretty strict on salty snacks though.  My doctor told me that they need to adjust the machine if there is a BP drop, and it shouldn't be prevented with salty foods.