What Happens If You Stop Dialysis Suddenly

2014-03-18 03:58

What happens if you stop dialysis suddenly? This is a common question for people with end stage kidney failure and people who are on dialysis. Dialysis is a substitute treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys fail to function completely. And more and more kidney failure patients choose to have dialysis.

As we know, kidneys have the function of filtering toxins and wastes in blood, and remove the excess fluid from body, which can help keep the balance of whole body. When the kidneys fail to work, the wastes and toxins will build up in blood, which will cause serious symptoms and complications for kidney failure patients. When the creatinine level is higher than 5 mg/dl, or higher than 707 umol/L, doctor will recommend patients to start dialysis. In this condition may also suffer form some serious symptoms such as severe heart failure or swelling, difficult breathing, dizziness, coma, anemia, bleeding, these symptoms may cause life danger for kidney failure patients.

Dialysis can help patients to remove the toxins and excess fluid from body, which can help relieve the symptoms that caused by building up of toxins in blood. Once patients start dialysis, they need to have regular dialysis depending on their illness condition, which is usually 2-3 times a week. And long-term dialysis will cause some disadvantages or severe complications for people, such as failure of other organs, high blood pressure, cardiovascular complication, nausea, vomiting, coma and even cause death. And the main cause of death of dialysis patients is these complications, so more and more kidney failure patients are afraid of starting dialysis and want to get rid of dialysis.

In addition, if dialysis patients suddenly stop dialysis, the toxins and wastes will build up in body quickly, and damage to other organs. When people stop dialysis suddenly, the serious symptoms and complications will become more serious and cause severe complications to patients. It can easily cause death.

Therefore, dialysis patients can’t stop dialysis suddenly since they will suffer from high risk of death. They need to choose some alternative treatment, which can help reduce the times of their dialysis and make them get rid of dialysis gradually.

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