nurses education

[sullidog]

A couple weeks ago I was eating a protein bar, one of the dialysis nurses told me that eating protein bars could make my protein go up too high, now correct me if I'm wrong but predialysis is where you have to watch your protein but once you are on dialysis your protein has to be 4.5 or higher, there's no limit once you are on dialysis. I think this nurse needs to be educated on this area before she gives the wrong info to too many patients and their protein goes too low.

[smcd23]

My SO is on dialysis now (PD) and he has to have a special protein shake every other day, and they want him to eat a protein bar every day and have some sort of protein with each meal.  I am pretty sure she was incorrect.

However some of those protein bars can have A LOT of other stuff you don't want, like phosphorus. Maybe she was thinking something along those lines - eating the protein bars could raise phosphorus or other things?

[jeannea]

There could be an upper limit that I don't know about. But you'd probably have to eat 20 or 30 of them every day to get there.

[Whamo]

Yes, it can happen over time.  I know because I just did it.  My BUN ration got too high, so the doctor told me to cut back.  My last labs were okay, after I did that.  But I was eating a lot of protein everyday for three months before it built up that high.