Leading Side Effects of Dialysis Then How to Prevent Them

2016-01-06 06:07

Dialysis is needed when kidney function is left very little to replace kidney to filter the blood. There is peritoneal dialysis(PD)and hemodialysis (HD)for patients. But as it is known, dialysis can also have side effects on patients. Severity of side effects of dialysis depends on detailed conditions of patients and daily care. Here we introduce leading side effects of dialysis for you.

The leading side effect of PD is infection.

In PD, catheters need to be inserted in body to make dialysis solution into and out of abdomen. It is very important to prevent infection from occurring. Infection can cause fever, nausea, vomiting and stomach pain, etc on patients.

How to prevent infection in dialysis?

Paying high attention to catheter exit place, keep it clean with antibiotic preparation is necessary and vital. In addition, good management of diet is needed, enough nutrition can be helpful for prevent infection. Keeping a good shape and weight is also important.

The leading side effect of HD is low blood pressure.

During HD, when blood is filtered with lots of fluids removed, low blood pressure can happen on patients. Low blood pressure can make patients have nausea and dizziness.

The most common side effect of hemodialysis is low blood pressure. It can occur when too much fluid is removed from the blood during hemodialysis. This causes pressure to drop, and nausea and dizziness can result. Tell your dialysis team if you experience any of these issues. In addition, muscle cramps can occur if much fluid is removed very fast. And access or fistula should be kept clean to prevent infection. It is likely for access to be clotted with blood, which can affect blood flow. monitor the access daily by checking for the thrill is needed.

In this case, consulting doctors to adjust dialysis to alleviate low blood pressure, and medicines for high blood pressure should not be taken if you are going to do dialysis.

Dialysis is a good help for end stage kidney failure, but it also do some harm to patients. And it can not improve kidney function. Chinese medicine treatment which is for repairing kidney damage and recovering kidney function is a good option to treat kidney failure. Dialysis can be avoided with Chinese medicine.

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