External Video: Almost everything you need to know about your kidneys: video by 'THINK KIDNEYS' campaign NHS UK

Almost everything you need to know about your kidneys

Article: Balance and dizziness after critical illness - Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Patients sometimes tell us that they continue to have issues with balance after they go home. This can be due to a number of things: muscle wasting and weakness changes in sensation (numbness or tingling) in the feet or legs inner ear problems from medication used in the ICU to treat infections loss of confidence when they first get home At Guy's and St Thomas's there is a balance clinic and they will see patients with any of the following...

Article: Balance issues

Patients sometimes tell us that they continue to have issues with balance after they go home. This can be due to a number of things: muscle wasting and weakness changes in sensation (numbness or tingling) in the feet or legs inner ear problems from medication used in the ICU to treat infections loss of confidence when they first get home At Guy's and St Thomas's there is a balance clinic and they will see patients with any of the following...

Document: Breathing problems after critical illness - information from ICUsteps

Article: Breathlessness

Is it common to feel breathless after Intensive Care? Breathlessness after Intensive Care is very common. Why do I feel breathless? The time you spent in Intensive Care may have caused weakness in your muscles, including those that help you breathe, so they are a bit weaker and have to work a bit harder to help with your breathing. Also while in Intensive Care you can quickly lose your ability to exercise, so while running for a bus may have made you breathless before, after...

Form: Breathlessness after critical illness

This article from ICU Steps provides information and advice about why your lungs and breathing are affected by critical illness. It also provides helpful exercises that can help your breathing to recover after being critically ill.

External Video: Common physical symptoms video by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM)

Video outlining physical symptoms that can be experienced after critical illness.

Document: Coping with loss of sense of taste and smell - British Dietetic association and ICU Steps

This document has helpful information if you are finding it hard to eat, because your sense of taste and/or smell has been affected by critical illness.

External Image: Dietary advice on how to eat well to help you recover after a critical illness

This video series describes some general dietary advice on how to eat well to help you recover after a critical illness. For individualised advice, please speak to your General Practitioner (GP), doctor and ask for a referal to see a dietitian.

Web Link: Erectile dysfunction (impotence) NHS weblink

Erection problems (impotence) are very common, particularly in men over 40. It's usually nothing to worry about, but you should see a GP if it keeps happening. It could be the sign of a more serious problem.