Is Dialysis Enough for End Stage Kidney Disease Patients?

Dialysis is the most common treatment for end stage kidney disease patients and patients usually feels much better after dialysis because dialysis can remove the deposited toxin and metabolic waste out of body. For this reason, most patients consider dialysis is an effective treatment for kidney disease. However, is only dialysis enough to treat kidney disease and prolong patients’ life?
First, it is necessary to know how dialysis works. Normally, dialysis is also called artificial kidney because it can take the place of kidney and play the same function as kidney so that toxin and metabolic waste can be filtrated out of body in time. In another word, when doing dialysis, it was the dialysis machines that work but not the kidney. This is also the reason why patients need to take dialysis regularly once they begin to have dialysis if no other treatment is taken at the same time. During the period of dialysis, if no treatment is taken for kidney, damaged kidney will maintained its damaged condition, and as a result it still can not work normally. When patients stop dialysis, toxin and metabolic waste will accumulate in body again and when the toxin and metabolic waste accumulate to a certain degree, dialysis is needed again. However, dialysis is only a kind of replacing treatment. It is still different from real kidney, even though it plays the same function as kidneys. Day by day, patients may have many discomforts caused by dialysis and even sometimes patients will become weaker and weaker. Therefore, only dialysis is not enough to improve patients’ living quality and prolong patients’ life. Only a treatment that can treat the kidney can makes people live a better and better life.
Since dialysis machines do not work on kidney, it is necessary to choose a treatment that can treat the kidney when patients begin to take dialysis or even before patients begin to take dialysis. Only in this way, kidney condition can be better and kidney function can be improved. As a result, patients who are in end stage kidney disease can have the possibility to avoid or even get rid of dialysis, and finally patients can live a normal life. In one word, dialysis is only a treatment for short time, but not for life time.