“I noticed my skin has started to darken. How can I lighten my skin on dialysis?” For many kidney failure patients, they meet the similar condition. In this article, let’s have a discussion.

From years of experience, I think the reason why your skin becomes dark is associated with the following points.

-Anemic pigmentation

-Too much iron supplement

-Calcium and phosphorus regulation disorder

-The chlorine content in RO water is excessive.

-Inadequate dialysis causes too much toxins to accumulate in body.

Ways to help improve dark skin for dialysis patients

-To correct anemia

-To check methemoglobin regularly so as to prevent supplementing too much iron.

-To check calcium and phosphorus regularly and PTH so as to balance calcium and phosphorus.

-To replace resins in the RO water periodically.

-To talk with your doctor to increase the frequency or lengthen of dialysis.

Besides dark skin, dialysis may also cause many other side effects, such as weakness, muscle cramp, skin itching, headache, nausea, vomiting, etc. In the long run, dialysis can even impair your renal function further. That is why more and more kidney failure patients would rather die than start dialysis. As the development of medical technology, dialysis is no more the only treatment. In Shijiazhuang Hetaiheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, we usually use Toxin-Removing Treatment. This is a systemic treatment, which is composed of 9 therapies. Those therapies can work together to eliminate waste products from your urine, sweat and bowel movement. They can also expand blood vessels and remove stasis to improve blood circulation and increase blood flow into kidneys so that essential elements such as oxygen, nutrients, vitamins and active ingredients of medicine can be transported into nidus to speed up kidney recovery. Moreover, they can reduce renal inflammation and protect your residual renal function.

-After about one week’s treatment, your swelling will be relieved, and you will see floccules in urine, which are those wastes being passed out.

-After about half month’s treatment, high creatinine, BUN and uric acid level will reduce. Symptoms such as weakness, cold limbs, poor appetite and so on will get relieved.

-After about one month’s treatment, your illness condition will get under control, and renal function will get improved. With the treatment going on, you can reduce dialysis or even get rid of it.

How to lighten skin on dialysis? Hope the above ways are helpful for you. If you would like to get more information on alternatives to dialysis, please leave a message below or contact online doctor.