How to protect the remaining kidney function for dialysis patients

As we all known, the long term of dialysis will take away the patients’ remaining kidney function, in this case, how to protect the remaining kidney function for dialysis patients become a major concern to more and more kidney disease patients. The methods are as below:


1. Rational drug use
Rational drug use is important for dialysis people, the medicine of dialysis patients should according to the doctor's advice, because some drugs can not only cure the disease, but collect toxins, besides, patients should careful with renal toxicity drugs to prevent kidney function.
2. Control blood pressure
During the progress of dialysis, it is necessary to keep blood pressure stable, especially during the dialysis. Low blood pressure can lead to renal hypoperfusion, reduce the residual renal function; high blood pressure will induce glomerular hypertension, aggravate renal damage.
3. Prevent infection
Dialysis can lead to infection easily, which will cause kidney function damage.
4. control the blood lipid levels
Lipid metabolism disorders is common in the process of dialysis, high blood lipid will aggravate the kidney function damage.
5. Improve nutritional status
During dialysis, the patients may suffer from malnutrition, arteriosclerosis and inflammation easily, the three bad conditions can form a vicious circle, becoming a important cause of kidney function damage.

Dialysis can only replace the kidney to expel out the metabolites and toxins, which can not treat the disease on root pathogenesis, so patients should seek a proper treatment to help themselves repair damaged kidney cells, stop the renal fibrosis, duly improve kidney function. More details please refer to: Life Expectancy After Stopping Dialysis

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