Dialysis, as the renal replacement therapy for people with kidney failure, it can help prolong patients’ life to some extent if patients are adopted to it. However, some complications still can not be inevitable. Confusion is a trouble for dialysis patients, while how does it occur?

Kidney experts who work in Shijiazhuang Hetaiheng Hospital point that confusion can be contributed to the following causes. (Tip: after you read, if you have any questions, or want to get best treatment suggestion, you can email to us at renal-diseases@hotmail.com or leave a message below directly!

Low blood sugar level

Low blood glucose occurs when blood glucose drops below 70mg/dL. If you have illness history of diabetes, decreased renal function can make you more prone to low blood glucose. Hence, dialysis patients experience mental confusion easily.

Dehydration

Confusion can occur along with dehydration. One of important dialysis functions is to filter extra fluid from body. However, if too much fluid is removed from body by dialysis treatment, it will lead to dehydration. The patients with the condition can experience diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and confusion.

Lack of oxygen

For dialysis patients, their damaged kidneys fail to secrete enough EPO (erythropoietin) to stimulate the bone marrows to generate red blood cells. What’s more, one important of red blood cells is to transport enough oxygen to very part of human body. If there is no enough oxygen to supply the brain, patients may suffer from mental confusion.

Other causes like poor sleep quality, autonomic dysfunction, inadequate dialysis, etc also can induce the complication for dialysis patients. To relieve the condition, it is important to take the corresponding treatments.

Actually, if you can receive the alternative treatments to dialysis for repairing kidney damage, symptoms and complications will be relieved naturally. In our hospital, Chinese medical therapies are widely used in clinical and have achieved the great success, such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Medicated Bath, Blood Pollution Therapy, Immunotherapy etc. To know more details, please do feel free to contact us!