I Am Looking To Get A Diet Plan As My Cholesterol Levels Have Slightly Shoot Up In My Latest Blood Tests.

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Question: I am looking to get a diet plan as my cholestrol levels have slightly shooted up in my latest blood tests.

Answered by Dr. Shinas Hussain (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
More details required.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
What is your age, occupation, height and weight.
What is your blood cholesterol level?
Any health conditions at present?
Your diet preferences?
Waiting for your reply.
Thanks

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Follow up: Dr. Shinas Hussain (9 hours later)

Below are the details:
Age - 29yrs
Occupation - Software Developer
Height - 6ft 2inches
Weight - 75kgs

Total Blood cholesterol - 222 mg/dl
Non HDL Cholesterol - 166 mg/dl
VLDL - 35.8 mg/dl

Albumin - 5.2 g/dL
SGPT(ALT) - 83 U/L

There are no present health conditions.

My diet preferences are North XXXXXXX food + South XXXXXXX Food(Idli,Dosa,Upma,Uttapam).
Also, I will prefer to have non-veg atleast once per week or twice per month.

Below is my current eating routine (recently started after getting report) :
8-8:30 am - Coconut Water
10 am - Breaksfast (Poha, Upma, Vermicelli, Bread omlette,)
12 pm - Fruit or Sprouts
2 pm - Lunch (Rice, dal, vegetable, papad and curd)
6pm - Evening snack + Green tea or Lemon tea
9pm - Dinner (Roti/Paratha + Vegetable)

Workout/Exercise:
- Daily walk after Lunch and dinner for 15-20 mins
- Playing badminton over weekends
- Swimming once per week

Answered by Dr. Shinas Hussain (9 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Mostly not required

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Mostly it wont be required.
When there is chronic urinary retention we can try for medical management using various drugs.
If there is no improvement with drugs then only intermittent catheterisation or self XXXXXXX required.
Thanks

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Kampana