As we all know, dialysis is a life-saving treatment that can help end-stage kidney disease patients maintain their basic life. However, a common complaint come from dialysis patients can be heard, namely diarrhea. Well then, can dialysis cause diarrhea? If so, how to deal with the condition? Please read on.

The causes of diarrhea on dialysis.

We must affirm that dialysis does extend patients’ life expenctancy. However, it only can replace kidney to remove wastes and toxins from the body but fail to keep electrolyte balance and repair kidney damage. Then, the disorder of water and sodium metabolism, and abnormal potassium, phosphorus and calcium level will occur easily. If uncontrolled timely, these disorders are more likely to cause damage on gastrointestinal tract, while diarrhea is the common gastrointestinal problem.

The another cause of diarrhea may be diabetics. If you have diabetes at the same time, you are more likely to be attacked by diarrhea. Diabetes will slow down the movement of the food through the intestine tract and cause bacteria disorder, leading to diarrhea.

Others possible reasons may be the side effects of antibiotics, bacteria, cold dialysis fluid and so on.

Well then, how to treat diarrhea for dialysis patients?

To ease patients’ uncomfortable diarrhea, the best treatment is to improve their kidney function so as to reduce the times of dialysis and correct electrolyte imbalance. Then, how to do?

In Shijiazhuang Hetaiheng Hospital, China, we do use natural and advanced therapy called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy which is an innovation from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Under the cooperation of Chinese medicines and advanced western medical technology, the active ingredients in the treatment can permeate into kidney lesion directly and effectively. What’s more, due to its external application, the treatment can avoid the damage on the gastrointestinal tract and other organs. As long as kidney function get improvement, the times of dialysis can be reduced or even be avoided, then, diarrhea also accordingly disappears. Besides the medical treatment, diet therapy is also very important. To know more info, please be free to contact our Online Doctor or leave a message below directly.