Care for your kidneys

“I know peaches contain a lot of potassium, but it was my 32nd birthday and peaches with custard was the only thing I felt like eating, so I thought I’d treat myself,” says Kate Hansen, who was diagnosed with type 1 when she was three years old.

A few hours after Kate had that celebratory meal on a Sunday afternoon in August 2018, she suffered a cardiac arrest, triggered by those high-potassium peaches and as a complication of her end-stage kidney disease. She died for 15 minutes before paramedics brought her back to life using CPR and 10 shocks from a defibrillator. Having been on dialysis – a treatment that