Does Dialysis Make PKD Worse

2014-07-26 07:54

Many PKD patients complain they feel unwell after or during dialysis, and they may begin to experience symptoms they had no before. Why is this? Does it mean dialysis make PKD worse?

Does dialysis make PKD worse?

PKD is a kidney disorder marked by countless cysts in kidney. Kidney condition becomes worse and worse when more and more kidney tissues are injured due to enlarged kidney. Therefore, shrinking kidney cyst is the way to prevent kidney failure and dialysis. Dialysis is a medical procedure in which blood drained out of the body is filtered by a machine and then flow back to the body again. During this process, some wastes in the blood like creatinine and urea nitrogen are removed out of the body. Therefore, dialysis is used to help failed kidney purify blood and it has no direct relationship with PKD.

Why PKD patients feel unwell after dialysis?

Dialysis helps patients with kidney failure caused by PKD, but why they feel unwell after dialysis? Dialysis helps to do one of the jobs that should be done by kidney, say filter blood here. Although it is helpful in purifying blood, but it can not do as well as a healthy kidney, so during or after dialysis, patients feel unwell and they may experience a group of discomforts or side effects due to different reasons:

1. Low blood pressure: Failed kidney can not eliminate fluid that it does not needed from the bloodstream. Dialysis helps to remove them out of the body and quick elimination of them will lead to quick decrease of blood pressure.

2. Nausea and vomiting: It is another common discomfort that PKD patients may experience when they are on dialysis. There are times when the filtration rate is not quite agreeable to the body and can result in enough fluid imbalance to cause the body to react in uncomfortable ways.

3. Muscle cram: It is one of the most common complains among dialysis patients and is said to be related with electrolyte imbalance. Dialysis only helps to purify blood, but can not regulate electrolyte balance, so to get this problem solved, regulating electrolyte in the blood is every important.

Apart from these, there are some other side effects that PKD patients my experience during or after dialysis. Dialysis is used to clear toxins away from the blood, so it is not needed by PKD patients who have low levels of toxins in the blood.

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