How Many Times Should Kidney Failure Patient Take Dialysis Per Week

Dialysis is helpful for relieving those symptoms caused by kidney failure, however, the dialysis times maybe different for different patient. Then how many times should the patient take dialysis for per week?

In fact, the dialysis times should be made according to the patient’s residual kidney function. If the urine volume is over 800ml/day, that indicates there are remaining more than 8ml/min kidney function, for this part of patient they need to take dialysis 10-12 hours for each week. If the urine volume is less than 800ml/day, they need to take dialysis 12-15 hours for each week, three times is better than 2 times. For people who have no residual kidney function, that is mean have no urine, they need to take longer time to reach adequate dialysis, 3 times per week, 4-5 hours per time is in demand.

Why patient should take dialysis accordingly?

If people can not get adequate dialysis, their immunity will decline and some complications will occur, that will affect the patient’s life quality greatly. What’s worse, it will increase the infection rate, that will make the disease more complex. So as a patient, you should not decrease the dialysis times without communicate with your doctor.

In one word, adequate dialysis is the key point to prolong patient’s life span before they get other alternative therapy or kidney transplant. So do cooperate with your doctor, that can assure you to have a quality life.

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