What Can Happen If I Stop Dialysis

2016-02-05 07:31

Dialysis is a common option for patients with kidney failure, but dialysis can cause harm to patients with side effects. And it is very annoying and troublesome. Many patients on dialysis want to stop dialysis. Then what can happen if stop dialysis.

For dialysis patients, kidney function is left very little, and kidney is very hard to eliminate wastes and toxins in body, and dialysis is replacing kidney to filter the blood to remove wastes and toxins. And patients need to do dialysis two or three time a week, which is keeping removing wastes and toxins from body to make patients have a good condition.

Thus, if patients on dialysis miss a dialysis, it is not good and they should reschedule immediately with doctors. If patients on dialysis stop dialysis, kidney has no ability to filter the blood to remove wastes, in this way, large amounts of wastes and toxins build up in body, and symptoms and complications can occur very seriously. Patients will be at risk of death. There is no definite answer for how long they can live if stopping dialysis, which depends detailed condition of patients.

However, this is not meaning that patients can not stop dialysis. If kidney function can be recovered, it is very likely to stop dialysis. Chinese medicine treatment can help kidney function revive gradually, in this way, dialysis times can be declined, by the time, if kidney function can be recovered very well, dialysis will be stopped completely in the end.

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