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Food, Fluid & Summer Eating with The Cooking Doc

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Dr. Blake Shusterman is a nephrologist on a mission to help you eat healthy while living with kidney disease. Dr. Blake answers questions about eating and nutrition if you are new to dialysis, post-transplant, or pre-dialysis.

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Fluid management and control for kidney disease patients on dialysis

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One of the most difficult aspects of being on dialysis is the fluid restriction. Often, being on dialysis means you do not urinate as much as you used to, or you might not urinate at all. Besides ‘cleaning’ our blood, our kidneys also remove the extra fluid/water we eat and drink in a day. Depending

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