Kidney Disorders

Who to Contact
Where to Go to Chat with Others
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Who to Contact

National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
30 East 33rd Street, 11th Fl
New York, New York, USA 10016
(212) 889-2210
(800) 622-9010
Fax: (212) 689-9261
Web: http://www.kidney.org/

The National Kidney Foundation's mission is the total eradication of kidney and urinal tract disease. They serve pre renal and renal disease patients and families, donor families, and transplant recipients. They have state chapters with a directory available. The state chapters provide assistance to individuals who wish to start a support group in their locality. The Foundation provides parent-to-parent matching through their pen pals section of their newsletter.

Where to Go to Chat with Others

• Kidney Kids
  Caring for kidney failure, this group is for parents, friends and family caring for kids and kids living with kidney disease, end stage renal failure and kidney transplants.

• Transplant
  Organ transplant recipients and anyone else interested in the issues.

• Transplant-Related Newsgroups

• Kidney Transplants
  A discussion group for patients about to be or already transplanted with a new kidney. Medicinces, Life-style, Quality of life, side-effects, coping and things to watch out for.

• Dialysis Support — ESRD: End Stage Renal Disease
  We care, share, listen and discuss concerns as a starting point, a good way towards helping each other adapt to adjustments and truly survive kidney failure successfully. We help each other adapt and compromise to what becomes reality.

Learn More About It

• End-Stage Renal Disease: Choosing a Treatment That's Right For You

• Dialysis Patients Health Guide

• Kidney Disease and Kidney Failure
  From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

• Kidney Disease in Children
  From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

• Inherited Renal Diseases

• Kidney Failure: Choosing a Treatment That's Right for You
  From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

• ESRD Information Resource
  From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Web Sites

• National Kidney Foundation

• Consumer MedHelp
  Kidney "Helpers" Food Guides

• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease

• Nephron Line — UK

• RENALNET Kidney Information Clearinghouse

• American Association of Kidney Patients