Living Well with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Practical Handbook for Understanding Your Diagnosis, Supporting Kidney Health, Navigating Daily Life, and Staying Empowered - Couverture souple

WELLS, CLARA

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798173457820

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Living Well with Chronic Kidney Disease is a practical, compassionate handbook for anyone trying to understand chronic kidney disease (CKD), protect their kidney health, and continue living a meaningful life after diagnosis.

A CKD diagnosis can leave you with difficult questions: What does chronic kidney disease actually mean? What do my eGFR and other kidney numbers tell me? What should I eat? Which medicines should I be careful with? How can I manage fatigue and other symptoms? What happens if my kidney function changes? Will I need dialysis or a kidney transplant?

This book provides clear, approachable guidance to help you make sense of those questions without getting buried in complicated medical language.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Understand chronic kidney disease, kidney function, eGFR, urine tests, and CKD stages
• Explore common causes and risk factors associated with kidney disease
• Become a more confident and informed participant in your kidney care
• Understand medications and important medication safety considerations
• Make sense of kidney-friendly nutrition and everyday food choices
• Think practically about sodium, protein, potassium, phosphorus, fluids, supplements, and meal planning
• Recognize common CKD symptoms and complications and know when to seek medical attention
• Approach exercise, fatigue, sleep, stress, and emotional well-being in practical ways
• Manage CKD alongside work, family responsibilities, travel, relationships, and social life
• Understand advanced chronic kidney disease and kidney failure
• Learn the basics of dialysis, kidney transplant, and conservative kidney care
• Prepare for financial, practical, and emotional challenges that may accompany long-term kidney disease
• Build a personal kidney health routine, tracking system, and care plan
• Prepare better questions for appointments and communicate more effectively with your healthcare team

This is not a book about giving up the life you know. It is about understanding what you can do, asking better questions, preparing for change, and making informed decisions with appropriate medical guidance.

You may have days when managing CKD feels straightforward and other days when it feels like too much. You may be balancing appointments with work, caring for family, preparing meals, managing medications, or simply trying to preserve the routines and activities that make your life feel like your own. This handbook recognizes those realities.

Living Well with Chronic Kidney Disease brings together practical information about CKD management, kidney health, nutrition, symptoms, medications, lifestyle, dialysis, kidney failure, and long-term planning while keeping the focus where it belongs: on you as a whole person.

Whether you were recently diagnosed, have been living with CKD for years, or want to become more informed about your kidney health, this book can help you approach each stage with greater understanding and preparedness.

You do not need to know everything today.

You can start with one question, one conversation, one informed decision, and one day at a time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798173457820
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 105
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg