Learning that you have kidney disease can come with a lot of questions. And it can often feel like you’re learning a whole new vocabulary…

Baking soda. You know it for its use in baking, cleaning, and maybe even teeth whitening. Its formal chemical name is sodium bicarbonate, and it’s…

If you have been told you have chronic kidney disease (CKD), you may be familiar with the lab values BUN and creatinine. BUN stands for…