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5 Ways To Support Children and Adolescents with Kidney Disease

Nearly 10,000 children1 in the country are living with kidney failure and require either dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. How can you be...

Transition to adult care,

Children and adolescents,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Hopeful For the Future

 I was diagnosed with kidney disease when I was 22 months old. This came as a shock to my parents – we had no family history of kidney disease th...

Childhood nephrotic syndrome,

Transition to adult care,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Treatments and therapies

Silver Linings of CKD

My name is Erin; I’m twenty one years old from Saint Paul, MN and a rising senior at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. When I was eleven years...

Early stage kidney disease,

Transition to adult care,

Diet and meal planning,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Diet and nutrition,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors