Looking at the Disease of Kidney Failure
What Do Kidneys Do and What Happens When They Fail?
Are You at Risk for Kidney Failure?
Symptoms of Kidney Failure
How to Treat Kidney Failure
Step 1: Assess Your Current Treatment Plan
Step 2: Make Lifestyle Changes
Step 3: Follow a Low-Protein Diet
Step 4: Treat Salt and Water Problems
Step 5: Regulate Your Blood Pressure
Step 7: Treat Anemia and Iron Deficiency
Step 8: Treat Potassium Problems
Step 9: Treat Calcium and Phosphate Problems
Step 10: Treat Gout and Uric Acid Problems
Step 11: Treat Your High Cholesterol
Step 12: Know the Medications That Slow the Progression of Renal Failure
Tracking Kidney Failure, Dialysis, Transplants, and More
Keeping Close Watch on Your Kidney Failure
Dietary Treatment of the Nephrotic Syndrome
Safe and Unsafe Medications for Patients with Kidney Failure
Transplantation as an Alternative to Dialysis
Patients Who Have Avoided Dialysis
Government Support of Low-Protein Diets.