What Happens If One Forget To Do Peritoneal Dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis is a relatively convenient blood purification for kidney failure patients compared with hemodialysis, as it can be done by patients themselves at home. Similar with patients undergoing hemodialysis, patients with peritoneal dialysis also need to do it regularly. Well, what happens if one forget to do it?

What happens if one forget to to peritoneal dialysis?

Peritoneal dialysis is the second commonly used blood purification method among kidney failure patients. The process uses the patient’s peritoneum in the abdomen as a membrane across which fluids and dissolved substances are discharged from the blood. We know kidney failure patients need to do dialysis as their kidneys failed to clear toxins away from the blood. Well, dialysis, including hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, can help to achieve this goal, so it is needed by people with completely failed kidneys.

For patients with peritoneal dialysis, if they forget to do it, toxins will pile up in their blood. These toxins circulate with blood and may cause damages on any part of their body. Therefore, people with lots of toxins in blood run high risk for various problems like digestive problems, respiratory problems, heart problem and so on.

Will I die if I forget to do peritoneal dialysis?

Peritoneal dialysis is used to purify blood for kidney failure patients and this will help to lower their risk for other health problems. When kidney failure patients forget to do peritoneal dialysis, content of toxins in their blood will increase. Under such a condition, if patients do peritoneal dialysis timely, toxins will be removed. However, if they stop to do peritoneal dialysis, their life span will be as short as one to four weeks.

Compared with hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis is more convenient, but more risky as it causes infection easily which may become the final cause of their death. For this reason, it is necessary for patients to master some basic knowledge about how to manage peritoneal dialysis well so as to avoid infection and other side effects effectively.