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Chicken and Apple Curry
Add some spice to your kidney diet with Monica’s delicious Chicken and Apple Curry. Monica, a DaVita renal dietitian from Minnesota, creates a kidney-friendly curry dish by replacing cow’s milk with rice milk and using a low-sodium chicken broth.
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Chicken Marsala
Chicken Marsala is a famous, traditional Sicilian dish distinguished by its delicious sauce, a reduction of Marsala wine and shallots. Marsala wine is made only in Marsala, Italy from three types of locally grown grapes, and comes in sweet and dry flavors. Traditionally, sweet Marsala is recommended with chicken, but Michelle, a DaVita renal dietitian from New York, slightly modified the recipe to call for dry, so the signature taste remains with the sugar content reduced, making it kidney-friendly.
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Low Potassium Style Fried Potatoes
Low Potassium Style Fried Potatoes is a delicious kidney-friendly recipe to put on any lunch or dinner menu.
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Italian Chicken Salad
DaVita renal dietitian Anne from Pennsylvania shares an easy way to use leftover chicken and summer squash to make a quick, tasty lunch or dinner with her kidney-friendly Italian Chicken Salad recipe.
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Ziptop Omelet
DaVita renal dietitian Kathryn shares a unique and easy way to cook omelets without muss or fuss with her Ziptop Omelet recipe. The trick is to put the eggs in a ziptop bag, along with a mix of fresh low potassium vegetables, and then drop the bag into boiling water. In no time, you’ll have a kidney-friendly omelet that tastes delicious. And the bonus is there’s no messy frying pan to scrub.
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Your Nocturnal Dialysis Support Team
As you dialyze overnight in a DaVita center, your dedicated clinical team will be there to monitor your care and ensure that your treatment progresses smoothly while you sleep. With dialysis out of the way when you wake up, you’ll have the entire day to do as you please. Meet the members of your nocturnal dialysis care team.
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Hair, Nails and Chronic Kidney Disease
When a person has chronic kidney disease,he or she may experience changes in their hair and nails. A patient on dialysis who experiences hair and nail changes can learn what to do to help get them as healthy as possible.
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Travel on Dialysis: 3 Steps to Help Plan Your Trip
Here are some special considerations for in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients, plus other travel tips.
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If I Had Kidney Failure, Which Dialysis Treatment Would I Choose?
Dr. Robert Provenzano is asked by his chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who need dialysis: if you had kidney failure, which dialysis treatment would you choose? Dr. Provenzano briefly goes over the pros and cons of each dialysis treatment choice, and then answers what he would choose if he experienced end stage renal disease (ESRD).
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Body Image Issues and Peritoneal Dialysis
Peritoneal dialysis has benefits, but body image insecurities can be present when making this change. Find ways to cope with body image issues.