What To Do For Constipation In Dialysis Patients

2015-04-24 08:50

Patient: My mum is in bathroom crying and cannot pass a bowel movement. She is a dialysis patient. What I can do to help her?

Doctor: Dialysis is a replacement method for chronic kidney failure. At present more than 80% uremia patients in the world reply on dialysis to sustain their life. With the improvement of blood purification technology, dialysis patients’ life expectancy will be prolonged and their life quality will be improved. However, as for most dialysis patients, they also need to endure all kinds of complications. Constipation is just one of the complications in dialysis.

Dialysis patients have less activity, restricted water intake and less plant fiber intake. These can all cause constipation in dialysis patients.

What can be done to alleviate constipation in dialysis patients?

Control body weight during dialysis and body weight increase should not be over 4%-5% of your original body weight. Avoid excessive ultrafiltration and increase the intake of rich fiber foods.

Arrange your defecation time according to your dialysis and form a regular defecation habit.

In daily life, dialysis patients need to reduce sitting and lying time and increase activity properly. For example, patients can take some gentle exercise like walking, Tai Chi and swordplay.

More importantly, dialysis patients need to repair kidney damage and improve their own kidney functions. When kidney function is improved, dialysis frequency can be reduced. Thus, constipation can be alleviated effectively and radically. To improve renal function, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Interventional Therapy, Medicated Bath Therapy, Foot Bath Therapy and enema therapy can achieve this purpose. If you want to learn detailed information, you can leave a message to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com or consult our online doctor directly. We will reply you as soon as possible.

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