Patient Education Information

Dialysis - The National Kidney Foundation describes how dialysis works and why it is used.

Eat Right to Feel Right When on Hemodialysis - You need to watch what foods you eat and how much you drink - read more here.

Kidney Failure - This handout is from the American Family Physician journal.

Traveling on Dialysis and Skin and Hair Problems on Dialysis - The Life Options Rehabilitation Program has created these fact sheets.

Urologic Diseases Dictionary and Kidney Disease Dictionary and Your Kidneys and How They Work - Fact sheets from the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse who feel that understanding how your kidneys work can help you to keep them healthy.

Acute Renal Failure - This information is courtesy of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Coping Effectively; A Guide For Patients and Their Families - This guide helps everyone to deal with the problems related to kidney failure.

Financial Help for Treatment of Kidney Failure - Check here to see which programs might cover your expenses.

Kidney Failure, Acute and Kidney Failure, Chronic - The Mayo Clinic tells the difference between the two.

Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment - This guide offers you information to make a choice of a treatment that is right for you.

Living Day-to-Day with Kidney Dialysis - The Food and Drug Administration has created this fact sheet.

MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

Kidney Patients Guide - This British site provides great fact sheets on all sorts of kidney issues.

What's the Deal with Dialysis? - KidsHealth has created this site especially for kids, but grown ups can read it too.

When Your Child Has a Chronic Kidney Disease - This information was created by KidsHealth just for parents.