Kidney Health Australia

About Kidney Health Australia

You can lose most of your kidney function before you feel sick -- by then it's too late. Up to 2 million Australians could have some form of kidney disease and not know it. Early detection is the best cure! Check your risk of getting kidney disease at www.checkmykidneys.com.au

Kidney and urinary system

Selection of YouTube videos about the kidney, its function and kidney health information

Chronic Kidney Disease

Go to www.kidney.org.au for more info on how to keep your kidneys healthy. You will also find lots of information about the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and treatment options. Find out how to keep your kidneys healthy - or how kidney function is measured - how they work etc. and educational information on a range of other kidney related and interesting subjects.

Kidney Capers, Camps, holidays and FUN

Kidney Kids Camps and Capers and other recreational and adult holiday activities aim to give people of all ages with kidney disease, their families and carers an enjoyable break from their normal routines. See some of the fun adventures enjoyed in these videos. Awesome!

Kidney Kids Camp at - www.kidney.org.au/NewsEvents/KidneyKidsCamps/tabid/649/Defau­lt.aspx

Kidney Capers & holidays at - www.kidney.org.au/NewsEvents/KidneyCapersandHolidays/tabid/6­88/Default.aspx

Live Kidney Donation: What you should know (Australia)

Queensland Health in collaboration with Kidney Health Australia and DonateLife have produced these videos to help you understand the complex subject of Live Kidney Donation. Go to... www.kidney.org.au - or - www.donatelife.org.au ....for further information on this topic.

Information for patients and willing donors

What is the Australian Paired Kidney Exchange Program?
The Australian paired Kidney eXchange(AKX) Program (AKX) is a nationwide living kidney donor program. The goal of the AKX Program is to increase live kidney donor transplants by identifying matches for incompatible donor/recipient pairs.

The AKX Program is part of the Organ and Tissue Authority's (the Authority) efforts to increase available organs from living donors. Approximately 30% of potential donors fail to fulfill their wish to donate a kidney to a relative or friend due to incompatible blood group or tissue matches. Long-term results from living donor kidney transplants are excellent.

A paired kidney exchange can happen when a living donor (Donor #1), who is willing to donate to a spouse, friend or relative (Recipient #1), is unable to donate because they have an incompatible blood type or tissue type. The AKX Program will help find compatible donors amongst other registered pairs who might be a suitable match (such as Donor #2 and Recipient #2 shown below). This enables two compatible living donor transplants to occur.

Who can become a live donor?
Most living organ donors are relatives of a person receiving the transplant (e.g. parent, brother or sister). Recent advances in medicine have now made it possible for people not related, to donate to the person who needs a transplant (e.g. spouse, partner or friend). Living donation by a relative or friend is called a live directed donation.

If thinking of making a living kidney donation discuss this with your GP to assess how this may affect your individual health.

For more information you can call either our Kidney Health Information Service on 1800 4 543 639 or you may call the AKX Program Coordinator on 08 9431 3690 - Fax: 08 9431 3902 - email: Claudia.Woodroffe@health.wa.gov.au

Home Dialysis

These reviewed and selected videos provide information about using Home Dialysis as your preferred treatment.

Living with Kidney Disease

These are a playlist of selected videos put together by qualified health education staff from various kidney health organisations globally, including Australia.

Dialysis and CKD

General videos of interest to those with chronic kidney disease, considering options for treatment

Transplantation and organ donation

Don't take your organs to Heaven,
Heaven knows we need them here!

Renal Diet

What do you eat if you have kidney disease - what are the preparation methods recommended - how do I cook a healthy meal for the family combining a renal diet menu

Your heart and kidneys

Find out about how your heart works, about the dangers of high blood pressure and high cholesterol - and how this may eventually affect your kidney function.

Diabetes and CKD

Find out about how diabetes occurs, how it can affect your body long term and affect your kidneys, about diabetic nephropathy, insulin resistance, metabollic syndrome, how insulin works and much more

Supportive conservative care in kidney disease

Urinary Tract Infections UTIs

Information on urinary tract infections UTIs - how do you get them, how to avoid them, when to see your GP. Go to our Wee Week page at http://www.kidney.org.au/NewsEvents/WeeWeek/tabid/653/Defaul­t.aspx for more information

Kidney Cancer

Playlist gathering info on kidney cancer, animations and treatment success stories

Rarer kidney conditions

Lupus, Fabry disease, Wegener's Granulomatosis, kidney, dialysis, CKD, treatment, stories, genetics, PKD polycystic kidney disease, FSG nephritis, glomerulornephritis

World Kidney Day

World Kidney Day WKD is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) and is held annually, on every second Thursday in March. In 2008 WKD was celebrated on 13 March, in 88 countries and territories and on 6 continents. www.worldkidneyday.org

CKD in Australia Summit 2009

View interviews from our Australian CKD Summit , Melbourne 23 and 24 July 2009, organised by Kidney Health Australia and the Australasian & New Zealand Society of Nephrology. The Summit launched a major community awareness campaign in Australia on CKD which acts as a multiplier for heart, stroke and diabetes.

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