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While the treatment based on potassium, sodium, chloride, and magnesium supplementation in addition to other pharmacologic options are widely established, recommendations about the dietary approach to GS and BS still remain generic. In this review we focus on the dietary strategies to increase sodium, potassium, and magnesium intake in GS and BS patients. Potassium and magnesium-rich foods and supplements are considered together with those that may reduce through different mechanisms the potassium and magnesium plasma level. Magnesium supplementation is often poorly tolerated, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea in most patients. New formulations using liposome and, in particular, sucrosomial technology have been recently proposed for magnesium supplementation in order to increase magnesium supplement tolerability and intestinal absorption. The dietary approach to GS and BS may be very important in the therapeutic approach to these syndromes. Due to the relevance of the dietary approach to these syndromes, a nutritional counseling should always be recommended and the nutritionist should join nephrologists in the follow-up of GS and BS patient care.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu13092960","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,26]],"date-time":"2021-08-26T05:41:50Z","timestamp":1629956510000},"page":"2960","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["The Dietary Approach to the Treatment of the Rare Genetic Tubulopathies Gitelman\u2019s and Bartter\u2019s Syndromes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Francesco","family":"Francini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine (DIMED), Clinical Nutrition, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Gobbi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Units, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Verdiana","family":"Ravarotto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Units, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Silvia","family":"Toniazzo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine (DIMED), Clinical Nutrition, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1167-2764","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federico","family":"Nalesso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Units, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"Spinella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine (DIMED), Clinical Nutrition, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7534-0128","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lorenzo A","family":"Cal\u00f2","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Units, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"221","article-title":"A new familial disorder characterized by hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia","volume":"79","author":"Gitelman","year":"1966","journal-title":"Trans. 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