When should People with Kidney Failure Start Dialysis

As we all know that long-term diabetes can cause various complications, like diabetic retinopathy, neurological disorder and kidney disease. These are the commonest ones. if patients' high blood sugar can not controlled effectively, the kidney damage will be aggravated. It may process into kidney failure, even uremia. The treatment will be quite difficult.
Once our kidney damage develops into end-stage kidney failure, the common traditional treatment is dialysis, which can be named as artificial kidney. More and more patients want to know whether he or she needs to receive dialysis. Then I will introduce a general idea about the standard for dialysis.
If patients suffer from oliguria or anuria and the serum creatinine is higher than 442umol/L. In addition, patients also have obvious vomit, nausea and so on. Doctor often suggests the dialysis.
Because each person has different physical condition, they also present different symptoms. Then what is the proper time for dialysis?
Most patients are quite afraid of dialysis, which make them suffer a lot and also produces kinds of complications, even the death. So they may delay the time of start dialysis as possible as they can. But they ignore the living quality.
Then what are the advantages of taking the dialysis in the early stage of disease?
1 The contraction of stay time in hospital
The average stay time for patients who take the dialysis earlier is 6 days, while the stay time for patients who delay the time of taking dialysis is 35 days.
2 The reduce of expenditure
Due to the improvement of physical condition and quality of life, the occurrence rate of some complications will also be reduced. This will be helpful to lower the cost.
3 Obvious raise of survival rate
4 The early dialysis can ease water retention and be favorable to the control of hypertension. Then the dose of antihypertensive medicine will decrease, so the stimulation to gastrointestinal tract will also be eased.
I hope the above information can help you and if you have other questions, you can send email to khkpcn@hotmail.com. Our doctor will offer you the proper suggestion. Wish a good health.