Diet In Renal Diseases

Carbohydrates and fats can be given freely to the patient with renal failure, but proteins should be prohibited, and minerals and water greatly restricted. Thiswas the basis of Bull's Infamous regime, a nauseating concoction of olive oil and glucose, which was administered orally or via an intragastric route, and, if it induced vomiting, the vomitus was strained and given again. More palatable versions of this were devised in our country, with cream and sugar mixed and frozen to make a reasonably palatable ice cream. Fortunately. the advent of dialysis has made this diet obsolete.