Fez Awan @FezAwan three times kidney transplant recipient and Organ Donation Ambassador based in UK. One of the kidney transplants Fez received was from the living organ donor, Fez’s father. Fez is based in UK and actively involved kidney disease advocacy awareness and organ donation. Fez is passionate empowering other renal patients and their family/ caregiver in kidney disease management and mental health.
Meet Anel and Juan. Their family life has been impacted by kidney disease. Anel is the post-transplant kidney patient 24 years strong!
Weekly discussion with Renal Dietitian♀️ Mathea Ford @renaldiethq about Kidney Disease Management and Kidney Failure Prevention on IG @renalmate Today’s Topic: “ Treating Acidosis” What is the Acidosis? and its mechanisms regulating the acidity-alkalinity level Treatment of Acidosis: ️with oral sodium bicarbonate ️diet management
The educational session with registered renal dietitian discussing blood pressure management: Doctors call high blood pressure “silent killer” as the high blood pressure can exist for decades before being detected yet it’s cause serious damage. Today we discussed: -What is Blood Pressure? -High Blood Pressure and Kidney Failure -Treating Blood Pressure -Measuring Blood pressure -Medication for High blood pressure
Join weekly Talk on " Kidney Disease and Steps to Help You Avoid Dialysis": TODAY'S TOPIC: “Low-Protein Diet For CKD for pre-dialysis” with Renal Dietitian Hunger management in transition to Low-protein diet. Sources of Energy: Going in Depth on Carbohydrates their source in our diet. Fats and which of them are good and bad for you? Low-Protein and how much of protein in daily intake is good/ healthy amount for your body type. Phosphorous intake and its correlation with protein intake; Tracking Daily Protein intake. .
Meet Shima Fazelimanesh, Clinical Renal Dietitian specializing in Renal Diet, Bariatric and Diabetes management IG @rebel_nutrition_therapy Shima shares the common gaps in kidney diet understanding and how misleading diet trends for weight loss may result in poor outcomes for kidney disease patients. Learn in depth about Keto Diet and its impact on the Body.
Leila ( IG @Leila_Hope) received a shocking diagnosis of kidney failure at ER room where she went to checked on her blurry vision ... She was only 27 y.o. when see was admitted to dialysis. In her journey with kidney failure Leila developed the coping technique that transformed her health, wellbeing and the outlook on life. There were numbers of the impactful practices Leila adopted during her three years on dialysis such as yoga, acceptance and managing renal diet, etc.
What made you to become kidney organ donor? Meet Shawna Robinson, blood and pallets and kidney organ donor to Marc Coronel. Shawna Robinson and Marc Coronel just have celebrated KIDNEYVERSARY 12/10/19. From the young age Shawna was introduced to health care system by her grant mother who worked as medical transcriptionist which inspired to her to take the first job training at the hospital ER. Since then the high school student Shawna become an active blood and pallets donor. Learn more about Shawna mindset in her journey becoming kidney organ donor.
Kellsey Reed, RD shares the importance addressing kidney disease management through the diet interventions in the earlier stages of CKD. Kellsey have helped many dialysis patients to gain confidence in eating ESRD friendly diet but she wanted to put her skills to empower early stage CKD patients, especially women to learn and adopt healthy eating habits to delay the progression of kidney disease. Kellsey emphasizes the value of self-advocacy for patients to request needed education and referrals by their care team. CKD Nutrition was created to help kidney patients live a full life with kidney disease. Tune in to learn more about Kellsey's approach to CKD diet management.
Discussion with Leila & Jovan about physical health and consistent exercise with its importance managing quality of life for kidney patients. Staying active by incorporating fitness in daily life may have a bright number of positive outcomes on health and wellbeing of kidney patients. However adopting new healthy habits requires significant effort and commitment from patients, starting from learning new skills of proper exercise to find daily motivation to adhere to the exercise goals. Jovan and Leila share their experiences managing exercise routes while going through the rollercoaster of kidney journey.