Dialysis is a most common treatment for end stage renal failure patients, because it can sustain patient’s life to some extent. However, it also causes many complications and dialysis patients are prone to suffer low blood pressure. Here we will explain this phenomenon in details. If you have similar symptoms, please keep reading.

Why low blood pressure occurs in dialysis?

There are several factors that can cause low blood pressure in dialysis. As we all know, dialysis is a medical procedure which can help to remove harmful and useless substances out of the body. But, during this process, not only waste products, but also nutritions are removed as well. Removing too much weight at one time can cause quick decrease of bloodstream in kidney, and thus lead to low blood pressure.

What symptoms are appearing during or after dialysis?

The typical symptoms of low blood pressure include anemia, fatigue, vomiting, nausea, chest tightness, shortness of breath, sweating, blurred vision, restless and do on.

If you are experiencing the above symptoms, you should take immediate measures to deal with your conditions.

Then, how to treat low blood pressure for dialysis patients?

Proper diet

Due to loss of nutritions during the dialysis, patients should ingest more nutritions to meet the needs of the body. Therefore, high-quality protein, high-vitamins, high-calcium, low-salt, low-fat and low-phosphorus diet is recommended to you.

Controlling body weight between dialysis sessions is very important to overcome low blood pressure.

A radical treatment

Immunotherapy --it is an alternative treatment which can help to fight against low blood pressure and avoid dialysis. It is a perfect combination of western medicine and Chinese medicine. The former is responsible for eliminating various symptoms, the latter is in charge of repairing kidney damage and enhancing renal function. And they can provide enough nutrients to blood. More details, welcome to send an email to renal-disease@hotmail.com and we will try our best to help you.