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Dialysis is one method to replace impaired kidneys to purify the blood. However, if patients take inadequate dialysis, they must suffer from some symptoms and complications.
Adequate dialysis
Generally, chronic kidney disease slowly aggravates into end stage kidney failure, and dialysis is more likely to be recommended when kidney function declines to 15% or less. Then, this therapy can help maintain a clear internal environment and prevent kidney failure complications. However, if doctors or nurses in the dialysis center operate dialysis incorrectly, it is unable to guarantee the adequacy of kidney dialysis.
What are common inadequate dialysis symptoms?
The answer depends on dialysis functions. As we know, dialysis can help eliminate some substances from the body such as excessive water, creatinine, urea, uric acid, and so on. Once dialysis fails to play its function correctly, a series of symptoms related to deposits of these waste products appear. For example:
- Swelling or edema in face, legs, feet, ankles and so on
- Shortness of breath, chest pain or difficult breath due to fluid retention in lung
- Nausea and vomiting related to buildup of urea in the body
- Bad taste in the mouth
- High blood pressure
- Cardiovascular diseases or even heart failure
In severe cases, inadequate dialysis may even induce life-threatening problems. If you happen to have one or more problems the above mentioned, you should tell your doctor immediately. Then, doctors can modify your dialysis timely.
In face, for patients who still have certain kidney function and urine, they can try alternative therapies to dialysis which are able to increase kidney function level and improve patients' overall health condition. If enough fortunately, patients can get rid of dialysis successfully. Here, we can provide such therapies to replace kidney dialysis. Are you interested?
