This disease frequently comes to children who have had meat feeding too early, and sweets and starchy foods have been allowed in too large quantities. Milk and milk preparations should be the sole diet until the urine is free from albumin. Then give a grated hard-boiled yolk of an egg over a dish of milk toast; milk soups, nut soups, fruit juices, cereals, boiled rice, rice pudding, stewed macaroni, puree of lentils, soy bean preparations, carefully-cooked spinach, cauliflower, celery, lettuce with French dressing, apples raw and baked, fruit gelose, sour milk foods, as zoolak, matzoon and buttermilk; small fruits, very ripe; stale bread, whole wheat and nut bread, and an occasional baked potato.

Avoid all meats and meat soups, sea food, white of egg, raw eggs, fried foods, rich sweet dishes, pastry, cakes, preserves and candies.