Anxiety and Dialysis

2015-07-28 15:15

Patients with dialysis may have much anxiety, because dialysis does make some changes for patients’ life. for patients who need dialysis, they may rely on dialysis to live on, and financial problems are a concern of patients. Dialysis need to take out of blood in body and filter it in the machine, then put it back. Many patients are very scared of blood and some pain during dialysis. Thus, anxiety is very common for patients with dialysis. Patients with dialysis should have a positive and quite attitude towards dialysis.

Performance of anxiety:

Panic, obsessive compulsive, post-traumatic stress, phobias, generalized anxiety.

It is very important that patients with anxiety should communicate with doctors or family, friends in daily life. If patients are left alone and very depressed about life, it is bad for disease conditions. Patients with anxiety in dialysis should have a right attitude to dialysis, which can help them eliminate wastes and toxins from body and prolong life quality. However, dialysis has side effects in the long term. Chinese medicine can be a substitute for dialysis. Chinese medicine can recover kidney function, making excessive wastes get removed from body. It can prevent kidney inflammation, promote blood circulation and degrade fibrosis. After a period Chinese medicine treatment, dialysis can be stopped in the end. Besides, patients with anxiety should have more vitamins to enhance immunity, avoiding medicines which have side effects. Taking exercise can help improve emotional feelings of patients a lot. If physical conditions of patients is ok, they are suggested to do more exercise in daily life.

The above can help patients with anxiety in dialysis alleviate anxiety. If you have any question or want to more information, you are very welcome to contact our online doctors, leave a message or email to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. It is a pleasure that we can help you and will reply as soon as possible.

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