Which Is Better, Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Or Hemodialysis (HD)

2015-09-10 02:26

Before patients with kidney disease start dialysis, it is necessary and important for them to decide which kind of dialysis: HD or PD. Your doctors can advise you, but this is mostly up to you. You need to take your daily habits and lifestyle into consideration before making the decision. As the saying goes, every coin has two sides. HD and PD both have their pros and cons.

Compared with HD, PD is more convenient and flexible for patients in daily life. For patients who are still at work, they can choose PD, which is also easy to carry if travelling or on vacation. Besides, requests of PD in diet is a little less restricted than HD. PD patients do not require needle sticks. However, because catheter must be in abdomen of patients, weight gain may be easy to cause for patients. it is very necessary and vital that patients with PD must choose a sanitary place to do dialysis, avoiding infections. These equipment must also be put in clean and dry places.

HD can be done two or three times every week, making patients have some time to stay away from dialysis. HD provides a place where dialysis patients can communicate with each other for you. HD requests needle sticks with no catheter. If you like swimming in life, it is more suggested to do HD other than PD. However, HD can affect their daily life, like work or school. What is more, more strict diet and treatment are needed for HD.

In addition, there is a new kind of dialysis called home hemodialysis and nocturnal hemodialysis, which describes that you can do hemodialysis at home or at night. But it need more frequency for patients than HD with less strict diet as HD.

In a word, you can choose what you like and is convenient for you best. You can also change dialysis method in the middle way, like you do some HD, then you can replace HD with PD. After all, the kind of dialysis depends your demands. More information, or any doubt, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctor anytime. We will reply you most quickly in detail.

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