Tag: Peritoneal Dialysis

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It’s dialysis, don’t be afraid!

Every time a patient hears that he is going to prepare for dialysis, he is very lost, scared and even refuses treatment. Today Dr. Clove will talk to you about dialysis. Dialysis is a commonly used treatment method. Simply put, when the patient’s kidney can no longer work effectively, a method is needed to help us complete the function of removing toxic substances from the kidney, including two methods: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Question 1: Dialysis is needed, is it going to die? Of course not! The reason why we need dialysis is for a better life. With the development of medical technology, the survival time of our dialysis patients is getting longer and longer. Now there are many patients 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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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 …