Kidney Matters Issue 13 - Summer 2021
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant. As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant.
As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
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In this Summer issue
Features
12
Music – the medicine of the mind
Music and mental health during lockdown
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36
Medical
8
Having
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Drawing on my fighting spirit
Discover the power of art
It would sure do me good to do
you good. Let me help
Not all super heroes wear capes – help with
home-schooling during lockdown
Whimsical Woodland Way.
Naughty Morty and Me.
A patient journey that led to the creation of
a popular children’s book
a stent removed after your
transplant
What is a stent, what does it do and how is
it removed?
Kidney Clinic – Hearts and bones:
CKD-MBD
Chronic kidney disease-mineral bone
disease explained
Do we need to worry about weight
and transplantation?
A look at how weight management can
affect kidney patients following transplant
Food, glorious food
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22
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30
Spicy cherry tomato and ricotta
pasta
A simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe
especially prepared for kidney patients
I feel good from my head,
TOMATOES!
How tomatoes can be safely included in
your diet
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12
Page
22
On your side
10
Answering your questions about
Covid-19
Kidney Care UK’s online advice and
webinars reassure thousands of people
with chronic kidney disease
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