Life saving does not cure the disease, do you really understand dialysis?

Now, for uremia patients, dialysis is a commonly used treatment. Ensuring vital signs at critical moments, dialysis can be said to have an immediate effect. It can quickly help patients improve their critical symptoms and pull patients back from the side of death, which not only prolongs the survival of patients, but also grabs valuable time for the next step of targeted treatment. Therefore, the process of kidney disease treatment seems to be long, but life and death are sometimes at the moment of onset, and dialysis is the savior who pulls you back at the critical moment.

However, patients with kidney disease need to understand that although dialysis can save people, it cannot cure diseases. So, what are the side effects of dialysis?

Generally, there are a large number of bases in the dialysate to correct metabolic acidosis in patients with kidney failure dialysis, and drug and toxic poisoning are mostly free of acidosis, so alkali poisoning can occur after dialysis, with symptoms such as nausea, headache, weakness, etc. In severe cases, there will be heart rhythm disorders, and even sudden death.

Long-term dialysis may lead to cardiovascular complications, anemia, calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorders and nephrotic bone disease, dialysis-related amyloidosis, dialysis-induced encephalopathy, digestive complications, dialysis-related ascites, acquired renal cysts, immunodeficiency, malnutrition, secondary hyperoxalicemia and other complications. Moreover, long-term use will also produce dependence, which will lead to gradual loss and atrophy of the kidneys, slow loss of kidney function until it is completely abolished, and there is no longer the ability to reproduce after dialysis.

Therefore, patients should clearly realize that the timeliness of kidney disease treatment is the key, and the race against time is a race against death.