What Can I Do Not To Get Headaches After Dialysis

2015-06-21 06:00

As we know, dialysis is a replacement and life-saving treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys lost most of their kidney function, but long term dialysis will cause some severe side effects for patients, and the headache is a common one. Then what can I do not to get headaches after dialysis? In the following article, we will get the solutions.

In order to prevent headaches in dialysis, we need first know the main cause of headaches in dialysis.

1. Low blood pressure

Low blood pressure is one of the causes of headaches after dialysis. During dialysis, there will be lots of things being filtered out. The concentration of these things in brains may be different from the rest in your body due to the blood brain barrier, which can cause the fluid to move into and out of the brain in painful ways.

2. Side effects of medicines

For dialysis patients, they may also need to take medicines, and some of the medicines intake will cause the side effects of headache.

Besides, there are also some other factors that can cause headaches, and patients need to take effective treatment to control.

Here are some of the suggestions to prevent the headaches for dialysis patients.

- Changing dialysis parameters can prevent headaches sometimes.

- Tell the doctor about the headaches and choose to take some medicines with less side effects

- Some dialysis patients recommend popcorn and ice water for headache.

- Some patients will take some tylenol about one hour before dialysis ends.

However, the most important thing to prevent headaches after dialysis is trying to stop dialysis. Patients can take some alternative treatments to repair damaged kidney tissues and improve kidney function. Once the kidneys can work effectively, it can help reduce the frequency of dialysis or even stop dialysis.

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