Can Dialysis Harm the Patients

2014-04-17 08:06

When your kidneys fail to work, dialysis is often needed. Dialysis is a kidney replacement treatment. It can take over part of your kidney function to filter wastes and toxins from the blood. Can dialysis harm the patients?

Generally speaking, short-term dialysis is good for your health, because it can alleviate uremia and help you get rid of these uncomfortable feelings. But at the same time, dialysis brings many side effects, such as muscle cramp, itch skin, infection, etc. However, these symptoms can be avoided by appropriate measures. All in all, the advantages of dialysis outweigh the disadvantages of dialysis.

However, long-term dialysis can affect your life quality by these diet restriction, exercise and so on. What is worse, dialysis harms your body, especially your kidney function. Dialysis can make your kidney function lose totally. For hemodialysis, you are connected to a filter by tubes attached to your blood vessels. Your blood is slowly pumped from your body into the dialyzer to remove waste products and extra fluid. This can lead to ischemia in your kidneys, which is harmful for your kidneys. Besides, the blood does not flow to your kidneys to be filtered, as a result, your kidney function degenerates. Then you have to live on dialysis or wait for a kidney transplant. Relatively speaking, peritoneal dialysis is better than hemodialysis, but it still can not improve kidney function.

Polluted Blood Therapy can work like dialysis to cleanse wastes from the blood. The difference is that it can recover your blood circulation and provide a clean blood environment for kidney self-healing. In addition, it provides essential substances such as amino acid and vitamins to help your kidney repair. When your kidneys regain their ability, you can get rid of dialysis.

There are also other ways to help your kidney function improve, such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Chinese medicine. You can learn more with the help of online doctor.

Leave your problems here and you will get nephrologists' advice with free of charge!