The society does not provide medical services of any kind, as its expertise lies in the areas of support, education, information and patient representation.
Kidney Society services are free for kidney failure families in Northland and Auckland, although membership is encouraged.
The Society works closely with the professionals providing medical care for people with kidney failure but is a strictly independent patient society providing support in the community.
Kidney Health Information
Information on this website is intended to interest and inform. Only the medical professionals looking after you can give you the right medical and dietary advice. Play it safe! Listen, read, learn, talk to others, ask, take advice and then decide what’s right for you. The Kidney Society takes no responsibility for the accuracy of information on linked websites.
Clicking on the topics in small print below will take you to kidney health information of interest on other websites. If there is a topic you think should be added to this website, please contact us.
Anaemia
The Iron Story
Understanding anaemia in kidney disease
Anaemia management and chronic kidney disease
Caregivers
Caregivers need care, too
When your child or parent must undergo dialysis
Caregiver stress
Children: see young people
Choosing a treatment
Which Dialysis Treatment suits my Lifestyle?
Conservative treatment: Choosing not to start dialysis
Choosing to stop dialysis
Choosing to stop dialysis
Chronic kidney disease
Chronic kidney disease videos
How to delay the onset of dialysis
Complications and side effects
Bone disease and kidney failure
Easy Bruising
Parathyroid Hormone
Some physical side effects of dialysis and how to prevent them
Skin problems and dialysis
Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome
Muscle cramps
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - video
Dialysis
Haemodialysis: see how it works!
Peritoneal dialysis: see how it works
Haemodialysis, an introduction
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)-A home dialysis choice for people with kidney failure
GFR (Glomerulo filtration rate) calculator
Vascular Access - Your Lifeline to Hemodialysis
How does blood get into the machine and back into the body again?
Fistula: best haemodialysis access
Caring for your vascular access
How will I feel on dialysis?
I want to know about my dialysis access
Dialysis line (central venous catheter) insertion for haemodialysis
Overview of catheter, fistula and graft placement surgeries
Dialysis - video
Diseases of the Kidneys
Kidney Disease - the basics
Glomerulonephritis
IgA nephropathy
Diabetes and your kidneys
HIV/AIDS and chronic kidney disease
Polycystic kidney disease
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Emergencies
What if I need dialysis during an emergency? (for patients in the USA, but contains helpful tips for NZ patients as well)
Exercise
Exercise for dialysis patients
Feelings and Emotions
Think positive and be healthier
Caregiver stress
Anger and chronic kidney disease
Your emotions
When Your Loved One is Depressed
Understanding Depression in Kidney Disease
Fluid
Fluid intake and dialysis: see how it works!
Heart
Chronic kidney disease and your heart
Heart healthy advice for people with chronic kidney disease
History of dialysis
The history of dialysis
Kidney Basics
Kidney basics
How CKD Affects Your Body
Residual kidney function
Living with kidney disease
Kidney Beginnings: A Patient's Guide to Living with Reduced Kidney Function
Quality of life on dialysis
Lifestyle changes on dialysis
Living with kidney disease (downloadable book) in English, French, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Punjabi
Looking good
Hair, nails and chronic kidney disease
Skin problems and dialysis
Pregnancy
Pregnancy and kidney dialysis
Can a woman on dialysis have a child?
Pregnancy with kidney failure and on dialysis
Pregnancy in kidney failure and dialysis patients
Relationships and Sexuality
Dating with kidney disease - and when do you tell?
Sexuality and the Renal Patient
Sexuality and chronic kidney disease
Telling others you have chronic kidney disease
Safe sex and sexually transmitted diseases
Are sexual problems common for people with kidney failure?
Contraception
Periods in women with kidney failure and after transplantation
Should women with kidney disease have hormone replacement therapy?
Sex and dialysis treatment
Loss of sex drive and other sexual problems
Sexuality and chronic kidney disease
Loss of sex drive and impotence
Can men with kidney failure father children?
Are there sexual problems after transplant and is it possible to have children?
Are children of kidney failure patients healthy, should their kidneys be checked?
Side effects: see complications
Sleep
Sleep issues and chronic kidney disease
Smoking
Smoking and chronic kidney disease
Teenagers: see Young people
Transplants
Kidney Transplant: see how it works!
Feeling good, looking good after transplantation
Travel and holidays
Work and travel on dialysis
Young people: teenagers and children
