Effects Of Kidney Dialysis On The Human Body

Kidney Dialysis Kidney dialysis is a treatment that helps save lives. It uses a dialysis machine to filter out the harmful waste, salt and excess fluid from your blood, which brings the blood back to normal. To filter your blood through the machine the doctor needs to make an access through your blood vessels. They would do this by minor surgery to either your arm or leg. Sometimes they make an access by joining an artery to a vein that is under your skin to make a fistula which is a bigger blood vessel. Other ways include: A graft which is when they use a soft plastic tube to combine an artery and a vein under your skin or they use a catheter which makes an access with a narrow plastic tube and that is then inserted into a large vein in your …show more content…
This side effect typically buddies with other side effects such as: shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting, stomach cramps and muscle cramps. Bone disease is another effect that it has on your body. Damaged kidneys are usually not able to process vitamin D, which is crucial because it helps absorb calcium. In regards to that your bones may weaken. There are also long term risks that can be caused from dialysis. The most common long term risk is dialysis dementia which is a neurological syndrome that comes from the aluminum compounds that is found in the dialysis fluid. Seizures and speech problems are symptoms of dialysis dementia. There is also a positive effect of kidney dialysis on the body. When you are using dialysis it is replacing the function of your kidneys, which is also giving your kidneys a break and time to heal. "Dialysis can temporarily aid the kidneys while they repair themselves." (Krans, 2012) In the end your kidneys could function properly again, and you would no longer have to use dialysis. Unless you have chronic kidney failure, which in that case the kidneys rarely get better and you typically need to be on dialysis for the rest of your life or until you get a