Tag: Dialysis

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After ten years of dialysis, her experience is worth listening to by patients.

If chronic kidney disease enters the end stage, dialysis will be a must-do thing like eating. However, because they do not understand, many friends will be afraid and run away. Dr. Clove visited Aunt Wang, who has been dialyzed for nearly ten years, and sorted out her experience. I hope Aunt Wang’s story can encourage patients to face the disease bravely and treat it scientifically. Ten years ago, the doctor said: Dialysis treatment is recommended. In 2003, Aunt Wang found out [chronic glomerulonephritis] and actively adjusted her lifestyle and medication, but the disease finally progressed to uremia. A renal examination in 2006 showed that Aunt Wang’s blood creatinine count had reached 730 mol/L. The doctor told her that dialysis was Read More …

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Face to face dialysis, it is not as terrible as you think!

According to the news, some uremic patients do dialysis at home and even make their own dialysis instruments. Isn’t dialysis supposed to be complicated? How can you still do it at home? Dr. Clove will talk about hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. What is hemodialysis? Hemodialysis is to draw the patient’s blood out of the body, remove toxins from it through a hemodialysis machine, and then inject it back into the body. The dialysis machine undertook the original task of kidney. Hemodialysis requires the establishment of vascular access. For patients requiring long-term hemodialysis, it is best to operate on the arm to establish arteriovenous fistula. This is a minor operation at the elbow bend. The arteries and veins here are connected Read More …

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Inappropriate diet, good nutrition becomes poisonous, chronic kidney disease, and food is exquisite.

The statement that “medicine is not as good as food” has affected many Chinese. For patients with kidney diseases, especially patients with chronic kidney diseases, how to eat is indeed very important. Diet and nutrition prescriptions are important components of the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease, but what doctors say about nutrition prescriptions is not to let patients [nourish], but to tell everyone how to [eat less]. When will what start to restrict his diet? For nephrotic patients with normal renal function, such as urinary system infection, urinary system stones and mild glomerulonephritis, there is no need for special dietary restrictions. However, diet should be adjusted according to other conditions of patients. For example, patients with stones should Read More …

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Dialysis can also be done at home?

Recently, a piece of news has aroused widespread public concern. Due to the inability to afford the high treatment cost, a uremic patient in Hunan underwent dialysis at home for three years. He thought that his condition could be relieved, but it backfired and his condition tended to deteriorate. With poor equipment, difficult conditions and serious illness, the experience of this uremic patient really makes people sympathize. Can uremic patients have dialysis at home? What good suggestions do nephrologists have for such patients? Clove Garden kidney moderator, senior nephrology experts put forward their own views. Uremia is not a rare disease. Uremia is not a rare disease in our country. The latest survey shows that the prevalence rate of chronic Read More …