Diet For Heart Disease Patients

Low Salt Diet

Without the use of table salt, sodium content in foods can be reduced to such an unusual amount of Na contained therein. Low-salt diet is fundamentally a regular diet of cooked & eaten without salt. In addition, the use of a food that is high Na content in the diet, reduced.

Things that require attention for patients who must undergo abstinence salt diet is not justified to make use of people with lovely salt for cooking or for food.

Food is processed by using salt, such as soy sauce, margarine, butter, cheese, shrimp paste, paste, pastries, etc. ought to not be eaten. Similarly, preserved foods that use salt such as salted fish, sardines, corned beef, sausage, & so forth. Raw foods high sodium content of both animal & vegetable foodstuffs ought to be limited.

In low-salt diet, Na content was still high at around 2500 mg. on a diet low in sodium, Na content is between 600 mg - 1200 mg. However, by using only definite foods in the diet, Na content in foods can be reduced to a maximum.


Low Sodium Diet

Low-sodium diet is only given to patients who were treated in hospital. low-sodium diet is most often used is called kempner diet. Diet consists of rice & fruits contain as much as 200 mg sodium, twenty grams of vegetable protein, & 460 grams of carbohydrate a day. The amount of liquid given between 700 ml to 1000 ml a day.

How to give Kempner diet are as follows:

Patients got food which consists of 200-300 grams a day of cooked rice as rice. Rice ought to not be cooked with salt. The number of calories obtained from rice is between 700-100 calories.

Additional calories are obtained by adding sugar or fresh fruit. All fruits can be given unless advokad, dates, & fruits that have been preserved / canned fruits. Tomato juice & vegetable juice ought to not be given.

Patients not only must limit foods that contain high sodium & salt abstinence, but also drugs or other substances which high sodium content such as Na-cyclamate (artificial sugar), spices (monosodium glutamate), & so forth.

Low-salt diet or low-sodium is not only given to people with heart disease, but also given to patients with kidney disease, liver cirrhosis, & pregnancy poisoning.

Patients who had undergone low-salt diet ought to think about the following matters:

  * If the kidney function is not ideal, patients will experience a deficiency of sodium because of the ability of the kidneys reabsorb Na decreased.
  * Na deficiency can also occur if patients got diuretics.
  * Less salt syndrome may occur in patients, the body becomes weak, loss of appetite, nausea, & vomiting. In addition, blood pressure will turuh, a fast pulse. This condition is also called "water intoxication".


In acute circumstances, to people with heart failure given Karell Liquid Diet (Karell Liquid Diet) consisting of 800 ml fresh milk provided 200 mg two times, each given at 8.00 am, at 12.00, at 16.00, & at twenty.00.

From this diet the patient will get the calories 550 cal, 28 grams protein, while the content of sodium in the diet that is 450 mg Na.

Karell Liquid diet is usually only given for or days. If the state of the patient gradually well, liquid diets can get replaced with a Low Sodium Diet Program. Fixed salt ought to not be given. Similarly, food ingredients or foods that contain high sodium.