Is Kidney Dialysis Lifelong

2015-02-18 09:17

Dialysis is the most commonly used medical measure for kidney failure, because it is the quickest way to cleanse blood. Kidney is the natural filter of our body and when kidneys can not do this job well, toxic substances build up in blood, which is very harmful for internal organs. To prevent new health tissues, a way that can make blood clean in shortest time is needed.

Dialysis only cleanses blood and can not help to regain kidney function, so it can not cure kidney failure. Besides, blood is only temporarily cleansed by dialysis. With normal metabolism, new wastes are produced in the body and to make sure our internal organs are living in a healthy internal environment, regular dialysis is needed. That is to say kidney dialysis is lifelong.

Besides, kidney dialysis is an ordeal, because long-term dialysis always cause annoying side effects like nausea, vomiting, itchy skin, fatigue, sleep problem, headache and so on. Also, as survival rate decreases over time after one starts dialysis, many kidney failure patients prefers to die rather than rely the rest of their life on dialysis.

Dialysis is lifelong, but it does not mean there is nothing we can do to get off it. In our hospital, many treatments like Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Blood Pollution Therapy, Immunotherapy, Circle Therapy, Acupuncture, Medicated Bath and Enema can be applied to help get off dialysis. These therapies work differently and also bring different treatment effects. They can be used together or alone. In Kidney failure, which of them is applied or which two of them are used is based on patients’ specific illness condition.

Although dialysis is lifelong, but as we can increase kidney function, we can live far away from it. Here you can describe your illness condition such as your illness history, current serum creatinine level, GFR and physical discomforts, our nephrologists will help to figure out which therapies can be used by you to help end dialysis.

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