Tips for CKD Patients with Acute Complications during Taking Dialysis

Tips for CKD Patients with Acute Complications during Taking Dialysis When people are attacked by late stage of CKD, they usually suffer a lot of problems which influence the life quality of patients seriously. To remit these obsessions, CKD patients have to accept dialysis which can help them a lot, even save their life. But sometimes, CKD patients also suffer acute complications during the course of dialysis. And there are some tips for dialysis patients.

First-use syndrome: many CKD patients suffer from fever, hard to breath, skin itching, abdomen pains and diarrhea such problems which are the signs of allergy. For this kind of patients, they should stop dialysis immediately and have a regular treatment of anti-allergy, avoiding re-injecting the blood in tubing and dialyzer back to human body. Another symptoms are back pains and chest pains which are related with complement activation. The rules for it is going on the dialysis and support enough oxygen treatment.

Low blood pressure: due to the over ultrafiltration, the blood volume will decrease. and tip for that is stopping ultrafiltration or lower the speed of ultrafiltration, laying the patients with head low feet high to decrease the blood flow speed and injecting normal saline.

High blood pressure: due to the water and sodium retention, unsuitable control of content or the high level renin, patients will suffer high blood pressure. The timely treatment is intravenous injection of sodium nitroprusside.

Arrhythmia: it is caused by the change of potassium and calcium levels which can cause heart disease. In addition, it also relate with low blood pressure during taking dialysis.

Fever: it is leaded by infection. Patients can take intravenous injection of dexamethasone 5mg and intramuscular injection of promethazine 25mg.

Muscle cramp: it is related with low blood pressure, ultrafiltration or low sodium levels.

In a word, CKD patients still suffer some acute complications during taking dialysis, so patients had better taking dialysis under the accompany of medical workers or family members. And we really hope what we mentioned can do something to you. And if you want to know more information about dialysis or CKD other treatment, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.