What will Happen if I Stop Kidney Dialysis

Dialysis is one important renal replacement therapy for treating end stage renal disease, however long term dialysis will cause a series of complications and side effects, for example hypotension is one common one and nearly all kidney patients will have at least one time hypotension during long time dialysis and its incidence is about 25% to 40%.

Many patients refused to start dialysis even though their doctor ordered it because they are afraid that they can not get rid of dialysis once they started it. This is the question that many patients concern. This is because dialysis can not reverse kidney damages or improve kidney functions and it only functions as an artificial kidney to replace functions of the failed kidneys to discharge excessive accumulations of metabolic wastes and toxins out of the body. What are worse, patients will become dependent on it after long term dialysis and the remaining functional nephrons will cease to work in the end and that is why there are many patients can not get rid of dialysis at last.

Actually it depends on the patients’ illness and physical conditions as to weather dialysis can be stopped.

For end stage renal disease patients, dialysis should not be stopped or the kidneys will continue to fail and waste products will poison the kidneys unless kidney transplant is done.

However in the early stage of kidney damages and kidney disease, dialysis can be got rid of or even be avoided with proper and timely preventions and treatments. So long as the kidney function is improved, dialysis can be avoided.

Immunotherapy is the latest treatment for kidney disease and from the perspective of immunotherapy, more than 95% kidney diseases are caused by disorders and dysfunctions of the immune system. In simple terms, immunotherapy is the combination of Chinese therapy and western therapy and it takes advantages of the two. Western therapy is known for its quick effects, but can not solve the root problems and Chinese therapy aims at regulation and recovering. Being applied to treat kidney disease, western therapy can help alleviate and control the symptoms such as high creatinine level in short time and then Chinese herbal medicines will be used to repair kidney damages and improve kidney functions.