January 9, 2020, 12:00pm – 12:00pm EST
Potassium and kidney disease: What you need to know
If you have kidney disease, your doctor may have talked to you about potassium. Potassium is a nutrient found in many foods and everyone needs it to survive. It is important to keep potassium at a healthy level in your body.
When your kidneys are damaged, they cannot remove extra potassium from your blood. Having too much potassium in your blood is called hyperkalemia. Join this webinar to learn more about why high potassium is harmful and what you can do to manage it.
Our speaker, Dr. Kam Kalantar, a nephrologist and kidney expert, will discuss:
- The relationship between potassium and kidney disease
- Ways to manage potassium through diet and medicine
- Consequences of not managing potassium well
