Why Do Dialysis Patients Sleep Too Much On Non-Treatment Days

2014-05-21 07:26

Dialysis is a replacement treatment for kidney disease patients, and it can substitute the works of kidneys. However, dialysis will also cause some severe symptoms and complications, which will affect the life quality of patients. Some dialysis patients often complain that they sleep too much on non-treatment days, then why do dialysis patients sleep too much on non-treatment days?

Dialysis is a way to substitute kidneys to work for people, which can help prolong the life expectancy. When people start dialysis, they may need to keep on dialysis 2-3 times a week depending on their own illness condition. And patients will suffer from some severe symptoms and complications during and after dialysis. Sleep too much is a common complain for dialysis patients, which can be caused by many factors.

1. Anemia

As we know, anemia is a complication for kidney disease patients. Dialysis will aggravate the anemia, because it may excrete more red blood cells during a dialysis. When people have anemia, they will suffer from a ischemic and hypoxic condition, which will make them fatigue easily, and this will cause people sleeping too much.

2. The accumulation of toxins and wastes

As we know, kidneys have the function of excreting the toxins and wastes in blood, which can help purify the blood and make people’s health. However, for kidney disease patients, their kidneys have been damaged, which will cause the accumulation of toxins and wastes in blood. Dialysis can help removing the toxins and wastes, but the toxins and wastes will be increased during the non-treatment time. And this will cause ischemic and hypoxic for people, which will cause patients sleeping too much.

Above are the two main causes of sleep too much for dialysis patients during their non-treatment days, and there are still some other causes of this. Patients need to first find the basic cause of the reason and then have certain treatment. If you suffer from this problem, and you want to get the treatment, you can contact with our experts online, they will answer you freely.

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