How Hemodialysis Work
There is all kinds of different health issues in the world we live in now. Diabetes and high blood pressure is the most common ones. Chronic kidney failure is also another health issue that is going on in the world today. Over 26 million American adults have CKD (chronic kidney disease) and millions of others are at increased risk (National Kidney Foundation 1). Now I know you probably wondering what CKD is. Chronic Kidney Failure (CKD) is the loss of kidney function. The kidneys play an important role in the body. Our kidneys help filter waste and excess fluid from the blood. Chronic kidney failure can also be known as acute renal failure. Some people have symptoms and some people don’t. I for instance, was one of the …show more content…
Sometimes if detected early enough a person can just control there sugar intake, exercise, and stay away from the salty foods can help control it better. It all depends on what your kidney specialist tell you. Speaking from experience I had to do the hemodialysis treatment. My kidneys were too bad off and the only way to get them back to function properly I had to do hemodialysis. Doctors normally recommend hemodialysis treatment when there kidneys are at stage 5. A person would have to go through surgery to get a catheter put in. The catheter used for hemodialysis is a tunneled catheter because it is placed under the skin (National Kidney Foundation 1). There are two different types which are non-cuffed and cuffed catheters. When I was doing my hemodialysis treatment I had the non-cuffed catheter. Most people with Kidney disease gets the cuffed catheters. This is more of the permanent kind of catheters for kidney disease. Dialysis catheters usually have at least two lumens attached to two ports (blue and red colored). The red port identifies the “arterial” lumen that draws blood from the body (proximal/side opening[s]) and the blue port identifies the “venous” lumen for return of blood from the dialysis machine to the patient (the distal opening[s]) (UpToDate.com 1). The hemodialysis machine is colored coordinated to the
There is all kinds of different health issues in the world we live in now. Diabetes and high blood pressure is the most common ones. Chronic kidney failure is also another health issue that is going on in the world today. Over 26 million American adults have CKD (chronic kidney disease) and millions of others are at increased risk (National Kidney Foundation 1). Now I know you probably wondering what CKD is. Chronic Kidney Failure (CKD) is the loss of kidney function. The kidneys play an important role in the body. Our kidneys help filter waste and excess fluid from the blood. Chronic kidney failure can also be known as acute renal failure. Some people have symptoms and some people don’t. I for instance, was one of the …show more content…
Sometimes if detected early enough a person can just control there sugar intake, exercise, and stay away from the salty foods can help control it better. It all depends on what your kidney specialist tell you. Speaking from experience I had to do the hemodialysis treatment. My kidneys were too bad off and the only way to get them back to function properly I had to do hemodialysis. Doctors normally recommend hemodialysis treatment when there kidneys are at stage 5. A person would have to go through surgery to get a catheter put in. The catheter used for hemodialysis is a tunneled catheter because it is placed under the skin (National Kidney Foundation 1). There are two different types which are non-cuffed and cuffed catheters. When I was doing my hemodialysis treatment I had the non-cuffed catheter. Most people with Kidney disease gets the cuffed catheters. This is more of the permanent kind of catheters for kidney disease. Dialysis catheters usually have at least two lumens attached to two ports (blue and red colored). The red port identifies the “arterial” lumen that draws blood from the body (proximal/side opening[s]) and the blue port identifies the “venous” lumen for return of blood from the dialysis machine to the patient (the distal opening[s]) (UpToDate.com 1). The hemodialysis machine is colored coordinated to the