Webinar: Potassium and Kidney Disease - What you need to know

When your kidneys are damaged, they cannot remove extra potassium from your blood. Having too much potassium in your blood is called hyperkalemia.

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

In this webinar:
1:22 - Meet Dr. Kalantar
3:44 - What is potassium?
6:38 - Benefits of potassium
7:27 - What is hyperkalemia?
12:01 - Symptoms of high potassium
16:49 - Testing and causes of high potassium
18:47 - The importance of diet management and tracking
22:50 - Dietary potassium recommendations
30:13 - CKD management through diet
31:30 - High potassium foods - What you need to know
38:49 - Medication: Potassium binders
40:16 - Medications that affect potassium levels
41:52 - Key takeaways
44:09 - AKF patient resources for potassium
45:34 - Patient Q&A
48:29 – 50:39 Do I need to manage potassium levels if I am a transplant patient?
50:40 – 52:17 How should I manage potassium levels if I have both kidney and heart disease?
52:18 – 54:49 How can a health provider help to improve a patient’s potassium levels?
54:50 – 57:09 Side effects of potassium binders