Does Medicare Pay for Dialysis at Your Home? Wondering how to cope with your dialysis when you are worried about going to the center? You might want to consider doing home hemodialysis because in the recent past, many changes to Medicare and other systems have encouraged people with ESRD to consider doing their dialysis treatments […]
Kidney Dialysis
RDHQ Podcast 91: What if it works? My thoughts on your future.
Hi! This is Mathea Ford, the creator of the Understanding Your Kidney Test Results course and today I want to talk about some of the things you might be struggling with my thoughts are I hear from a lot of people that they’re overwhelmed about being having chronic kidney disease […]
Renal Diet Podcast 070 – Different Types of Dialysis
Different Types of Dialysis for Kidney Failure Podcast #70 Released on January 23, 2018 Dialysis happens when you get to end-stage renal disease and you’re stage 5 and your kidneys are down to 10% or 5% function. Prior to that time while you’re still kind of feeling decent but you know that this day is […]
Hemodialysis Diet: What Changes Should You Make To Your Meals?
Hemodialysis Diet Is Key To Making Renal Failure Healthier Hemodialysis is the medical method of cleaning waste and free water from your blood if your kidneys go into renal failure, and is one of three ways—transplant and peritoneal dialysis being the others—in which renal replacement can be performed. With a hemodialysis diet, there are fewer […]
Alcoholic Beverages and Renal Disease
Especially during the holidays, it is common to raise a glass to celebrate the past year and the one ahead. If you have chronic kidney disease, you might be worried about how alcohol could affect your health. Before you imbibe too much, or before you deny yourself that glass of eggnog, you should learn the […]
What to Expect From Dialysis
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people go through dialysis for end stage renal disease. For many people, dialysis is an impending event on the horizon. If dialysis might be in your future, you may be feeling scared or unsure about what to expect. Sometimes the unknown is a lot scarier than the reality, however. […]
Find Good Recipes to Increase Kidney Health
Kidney disease is a chronic condition that benefits greatly from a controlled diet. In fact, your diet can impact chronic kidney disease more than anything else, which means that your diet can literally make or break you. With the right diet, you have the potential to both further your disease and potentially cause yourself pain […]
What Foods Should You Eat With Kidney Disease
What Foods Should You Eat With Kidney Disease? Putting together a healthy meal plan for kidney disease can be a little challenging at first, especially if you do not know what foods not to eat with kidney disease. So often, people tend to focus so much on what they cannot eat that they become stressed […]
Creating Kidney Disease Meals
Living with kidney disease means making changes to your lifestyle, especially when it comes to your diet. There are big changes that need to be made to accommodate a kidney disease friendly diet. These changes might take a little while to get used to, but you will find that eating healthy is easy when you […]
Don’t Let Chronic Kidney Disease Destroy Your Life
Hearing your doctor deliver a chronic diagnosis such as kidney disease will absolutely, without a doubt, change your life. Your life will never be the same. Chronic kidney disease, in fact, has the potential to destroy your life… but it doesn’t have to. A diagnosis like chronic kidney disease can make you feel depressed, […]
Kidney Disease Has Changed My Family’s Meals
The diagnosis of a chronic illness can change your entire life. From your daily routine to the foods you eat, so much can change with the few simple words of a diagnosis such as kidney disease. Some of these changes not only change your life, but the people around you lives as well. Kidney […]
Creating Meal Plans For Those On Dialysis
Living with kidney disease is hard enough for the patient that has to endure with the symptoms and dietary restrictions that come along with it. Not having people around that understand this struggle only makes things more difficult. Care-giving is an entirely different struggle, one that can also be quite challenging. If you are a […]
