What Are the Causes of Shortness of Breath After Dialysis

2014-07-11 07:25

Dialysis is a replacement treatment for kidney disease patients, which can help prolong the life expectancy of the patients. However, the long term dialysis will cause some side effects, which will make patients weaker and weaker. Many dialysis patients often complain that they have shortness of breath. Then what are the causes of shortness of breath after dialysis?

1. Low blood pressure

Low blood pressure is a common complication for dialysis patients. When people have severe low blood pressure, they may have shortness of breath or even coma. So kidney failure patients need to limit the take medicines to regulate the blood pressure, which can help prevent low blood pressure after dialysis.

2. Anemia

Anemia is a common complication for kidney failure patients, and dialysis can worsen the anemia. Because during dialysis, it can help remove the toxins and wastes from blood, but it can also remove the red blood cells from blood, which will cause severe anemia for dialysis patients. When patients suffer from severe anemia, they will feel weakness and get shortness of breath.

In addition, there are also some other causes of shortness of breath for kidney failure patients after dialysis, such as heart failure, obesity, lung cancer, asthma, etc. So dialysis patients need to first find out what causes their shortness of breath, and they have specific treatment.

How to treat the shortness of breath after dialysis?

1. First, tell the doctor timely if you have any discomforts after dialysis.

2. Since the shortness of breath is mainly caused by the kidney failure, so patients need to remedy the disease fundamentally. They need to have treatment to improve the kidney function, and get rid of dialysis.

We recommend them to take Chinese herbal medicine, which can help repair the damaged kidney tissues and improve the kidney function. Once the kidney function is improved, it can help patients to get rid of dialysis, then the shortness of breath will disappear naturally.

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