Information on a low potassium diet for people with kidney disease.

Guidance published in July 2023, advises pregnant women and those with a weakened immune system to avoid eating ready-to-eat cold-smoked or cured fish, due to increased risk of severe illness from listeriosis. Older people should also consider the risks associated with eating these products. Products include smoked salmon, smoked trout and gravlax.

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To support the dietary education for long-term condition management of people with chronic kidney disease and requiring a low potassium diet.

The target group will:

  • understand that they need to follow a low potassium diet due to their kidney disease
  • know the risks associated with high blood serum potassium levels
  • know their blood serum potassium target range
  • be able to identify foods high in potassium and suitable lower potassium alternative foods
  • be able to plan and follow a low potassium diet to achieve their blood serum target range.
  • NICE Guideline (NG203) Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management. 2021.
  • The Renal Association. Clinical practice guideline on undernutrition in chronic kidney disease. 2019.
  • National Kidney Foundation. KDOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease: 2020 Update.
  • ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with acute or chronic kidney disease. 2021.
  • Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and The Renal Association. Managing hyperglycaemia in people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. London: ABCD, 2021.
  • British Dietetic Association 2021. BDA Renal Nutrition Specialist Group. Phosphorus in Foods: Considerations in Chronic Kidney Disease. An evidence-based summary.
  • European Guidelines for the Nutritional Care of Adult Renal Patients (EDTNA) 2003.
  • McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated dataset (CoDID, 2015 accessed from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid).
  • Fouque D. et al (2007). European Best Practice Guideline on Nutrition. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Volume 22, Issue suppl_2
  • NICE (2013) Hyperphosphataemia in chronic kidney disease: Management of hyperphosphataemia in patients with stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease. Clinical guideline 157.
  • Kalantar-Zadeh K., Gutekunst L., Mehrotra R., Kovesdy C.P., Bross R., Shinaberger C.S., Noori N., Hirschberg R., Benner D., Nissenson A.R. and Kopple J.D. (2010) Understanding Sources of Dietary Phosphorus in the Treatment of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 5, pp. 519-530.
  • National Kidney Federation. (2009) KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, evaluation, prevention, and treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD). Kidney International,113, pp.S1-130.
  • Christian S Shinaberger (2008). Is controlling phosphorus by decreasing dietary protein intake beneficial or harmful in persons with chronic kidney disease? The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 88, Issue 6, 1 December 2008, Pages 1511–1518
  • British Dietetic Association (2013). Renal Nutrition Specialist Group – low phosphate diet rationale.
  • Schlemmer et al (2009). Phytate in foods and significance for humans: Food sources, intake, processing, bioavailability, protective role and analysis. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2009, 53, S330 –S375
  • Hannah J et al (2017). Phosphorus in food: new insights and recommendations for practice. Journal of Kidney Care, vol 2 no 3 p 66-72.
  • NHS 5-a-day portion sizes. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/5-a-day-portion-sizes/ (Accessed 2019).
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NDR-UK Ref No: 9474
Publication Format: A5 leaflet
Classification: DT
Pack size: 10
Publication date: 2019
Last Review: 2022
Last Update: 2022

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