For PH Patients about proper nutrition

Daily diet:

– Water no more than 8 glasses per day.

– Limit of salt, no more than 2.5 g. for 1 day (1 teaspoon).

– To cook without salt (each adds itself when eating). We can add seasonings: ginger, pepper, paprika, but not a mixture of seasonings.

– To use whole grains: buckwheat, brown rice, macaroni of solid varieties.

– To use vegetables (maximum) 350 g. for 1 day (potatoes are included in 350 gr.). Salad seasoning with Olive

– To use fruit 300 gr. for 1 day.

– Exclude preservation (contains a large amount of salt).

– To use fish: herring, mackerel, tuna, red fish.

– Do not use very fat meat. Veal 2 times a week. Pork is better to remove. The red meat contains “iron”. “Iron” is digested with “Vitamin C”.

– It is advisable to exclude frying. Replace with the cooking, baking.

– Limit the amount of sweet. You can eat: marmalade, marshmallows, domestic oatmeal cookies.

– Eat chicken eggs (protein).

– Take beans, sunflower seeds (2 tablespoons), nuts (0.5 cups) 3 times a week.

– Use butter no more than 1 teaspoon per day.

– Exclude transfats.

Pediatrician, dietitian Maryana Stegnitskaya

Children’s Health Center Anna Mazurenko