Dialysis is based on the principles of the diffusion of solutes and
ultrafiltration of fluid through a semi-permeable membrane. Dialysis can help
patients in the end stage live a normal life, so in some way it is beneficial to
patients. However, dialysis is also followed by many side effects.
First and foremost, dialysis is money-consuming. Dialysis just helps patents
remove excessive water and electrolyte from their blood and it can not treat
their disease, so it is not the root treatment for patients. Usually, patients
who are undergoing dialysis need to do it for several times a week. Seeing from
this point, dialysis is very money-consuming.
Secondly, patients with end stage of Chronic Kidney Disease(ESRD) are easy to rely
on dialysis. Long-term dialysis can cause renal atrophy and blood flow in
kidneys will correspondingly reduce. As a result, our kidneys can not produce
urine. If a body can not produce urine, then the water ingested by patients can
not be excreted; consequently, patients need to undergo dialysis again and
again.
Thirdly, dialysis can not make toxin in patients’ body decrease to the level
of healthy people. The toxic substances accumulating in patients’ body will
cause damage to their other organs. Adopting dialysis means giving chance to the
occurrence of other diseases. Therefore, dialysis actually shortens patients’
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Fourthly, dialysis lowers the quality of patients’ life. For patients
undergoing dialysis, they have to do dialysis every two or three days and each
time it last four to five hours. After undergoing dialysis, patients usually
feel very tired, which has affected patients’ life and work greatly. Moreover,
when blood is filtered through dialysis machine, every kinds of complications
such as high blood pressure may occur, which increases the incidence of
infection. Hence, dialysis has great bad influence on patients’ life.
Dialysis is not an effective way for people to maintain their life. Thereby,
if patients with end stage of Chronic Kidney Disease want to avoid dialysis,
then they should receive treatment as early as possible.