The booklet provides patients with information about kidney failure, its treatment options and the nutrition of dialysis patients. Includes chapters on kidney anatomy and physiology, diseases that can lead to kidney failure, treatment options for kidney disease and kidney failure, including dialysis and kidney transplantation. In other chapters, the issue of individual nutrients in food is explained in detail, including their use in dialysis patients. The following chapters are devoted to the changes that occur when a patient is indicated for dialysis treatment – ​​diet, suitable and unsuitable foods, their technological modification, meal planning, patient experiences, eating on special occasions. The last part contains recipes suitable for dialysis patients.