Why Does Dialysis Make You Tired

2014-04-01 01:00

Dialysis is a life-prolong treatment for your kidney failure. But at the same time dialysis leads to many side effects. Recently, a patients seeks help from our website. He consulted why does dialysis makes patients tired. In the following, there list some of the causes and its treatment.

Fatigue may be associated with low blood pressure.

Low blood pressure results from too much fluid being removed from your body too quickly. It also occurs when you eat hypotensive drugs before dialysis.

In such case, you should attach importance to the intake of fluid between the two dialysis sessions and take hypotensive drugs under the instruction of your doctor.

Fatigue may be due to inadequate dialysis.

Inadequate dialysis means your polluted blood is not cleansed thoroughly. The accumulated wastes and toxins can cause a series of problems. Fatigue is just one of them.

In such case, you should talk with your doctor to increase the duration and frequency of dialysis.

Fatigue may be associated with anemia.

Anemia is very common among dialysis patients. It means there are not enough red blood cells to transport oxygen and nutrient to your body, so you feel tired easily. Anemia is usually caused by declined secretion of erythropoietin and iron deficiency.

In such case, you may need to take EPO and iron supplements.

Fatigue may be caused by excessive restriction on diet.

Most kidney patients follow a restricted diet to slow its progression, but if you can not control your diet, malnutrition occurs and then you may feel tired.

For a dialysis patient, you should increase your protein intake to 1.2 g/kg per day instead of the low protein diet.

Other factors

There are also many factors that can contribute to your fatigue. For example, physical inactivity, poor sleeping quality, side effects of medicines, etc.

Space limited, we do not list all the causes. If you would like to know more, please contact our online doctors. We will provide you some professional advice to help you get rid of fatigue and live a better life.

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