A pharmaceutical preparation including an amino acid infusion fluid is administered to patients receiving dialysis to ameliorate nutritional status of patients. As a result, anemia can be ameliorated and the required dose of erythropoietin can be reduced in these patients. Furthermore, the serum phosphate levels can be controlled to a predetermined range and protein catabolism can be suppressed in such patients. The amino acid infusion fluid has at least one essential amino acid. The preferred amino acid composition includes at least L-isoleucine, L-leucine, L-lysine, L-methionine, L-phenylalanine, L-threonine, L-tryptophan, L-valine, L-alanine, L-arginine, L-aspartic acid, L-glutamic acid, L-histidine, L-proline, L-serine, L-tyrosine, glycine and L-cysteine, wherein the ratio of essential amino acids to non-essential amino acids is 2.5 or higher.
