A Correct Attitude to Dialysis

Kidney disease is always considered as the second cancer because it can be treated but can not be cured. Different from cancer, when patients are in end stage kidney disease, they can choose dialysis to help kidneys to discharge toxin and metabolic waste out of body which method is also called artificial kidney. However, what is the function of dialysis or is it helpful? Actually, in order to know the answers, we need to have a correct attitude to dialysis.
Advantages of Dialysis
Most of patients are forced to choose dialysis when their condition is too serious and some patients who have better financial condition may also choose kidney transplant directly instead of dialysis. However, is dialysis so terrible? Actually, dialysis still has its own advantages in treating kidney disease. The same as other medicines for kidney disease patients, dialysis is only a method to relieve the disease. What’s more, choosing a proper time to take dialysis for patients is also helpful for them to live a better life and get a better treatment in the future.
It is well known than when patients’ illness condition get into end stage renal failure, patients will always have the symptoms of nausea, vomiting, skin itch, spasm, bad smell in mouth and so on, and all these symptoms are caused by high toxin deposite in body which leads to functional disorder. Under such condition, dialysis can help damaged kidney to discharge the deposited toxin such as urea, creatinine and so on out of body. Besides, dialysis can also remove extra water in body, which can prevent high blood pressure, Ventricle Enlargement as well as cardiac damage or even heart failure, etc.
What’s more, an earlier dialysis is also helpful to protect remained kidney function, which can provide a beneficial kidney internal environment for future treatment. Therefore, in some cases, dialysis is necessary in order to relieve kinds of symptoms and complications, playing an important role in saving patients life.
Disadvantages of dialysis
It is obvious that dialysis has many advantages in treating kidney disease and saving patients life. However, this is only a temporary treatment and patients should also think about the harms that dialysis may bring when it relieves kinds of discomforts.
1. There are also many complications of dialysis. Dialysis is used to save life, but not used to treat the disease. Proper dialysis can discharge toxin and metabolic waste out of body in time. However, the complications of dialysis is also various and serious, such as low blood pressure, muscle cramp, abdominal pain, bleeding or even heart problem and so on. From another viewpoint, dialysis will make patients become weaker and weaker.
2. Kidney function will keep declining and weakening gradually if patients take dialysis for a long period. Dialysis is only taking the place of the kidney to discharge toxin out of body, but it does not treat the kidney. If patients depend on dialysis for a long time, remained kidney function will declines gradually because kidney never work by itself during dialysis period. Day by day, all kidney function will disappear and finally kidney transplant will be the only way for kidney disease patients.
3. Living quality may become lower after patients take dialysis and sometimes dialysis may also make patients lose the best treatment opportunity. When the disease gets into end stage, patients will lose the chance to choose the treatment by themselves. At this moment, it was the illness condition that chooses treatment because kidney has been damaged too seriously and dialysis is necessary to maintain patients’ life. However, dialysis can affect patients’ normal life and it will make patients weaker. Most of the time, it may also reduce the life expectancy of kidney disease patients. Therefore, kidney disease patients are suggested to consider about other kind of treatment other than dialysis when they just begin to accept dialysis. According to present medicine technology, Chinese medicine treatment combined with western medicine treatment is a better choice, which can delay dialysis interval and reduce dialysis times gradually.
Considering about the above points about dialysis, patient with end stage renal failure should have a comprehensive analysis on their own illness condition when local hospitals all suggest dialysis. Kidney disease experts also pointed out that when taking dialysis, patients should also choose treatment that can treat the disease starting with repairing and protecting kidney. Only in this way, patients can have the possibility of getting rid of dialysis, which can not only take full use of dialysis advantages, but also avoid the side effects from dialysis in future life.