Can kidney failure patients refuse dialysis? This is a problem which is confusing patients with renal failure. Long time dialysis has the following disadvantages:
Firstly, long time dialysis is really a load in economy. In uremia stage, we can also say advanced stage of renal failure, patients may even need to take dialysis 3 times a week. What’s worse, some may even take dialysis every day so as to clear the toxins in the blood for the kidney nearly fails to work or else, it will threaten patients’ life. In this case, dialysis really leads to a large amount of expense.
Secondly, dialysis can not treat kidney failure. It can only act as a machine, which clears away the toxins which can not be discharged out such as creatinine, and so on. When kidney is damaged into kidney failure stage, there must be damaged and even necrotic intrinsic cells in the kidney, so the fundamental treatment is to repair these cells. If this condition lasts long, it not only can not stop the further damage, but also lead patients into further stage such as uremia.
Last but not least, patients can even have complications if they take dialysis for a long time.
So can kidney failure patients refuse or get rid of dialysis? According to experts in kidney disease field, it depends on the specific condition. And glomerular filtration rate, which is short for GFR, is an important and scientific index which can show the condition of kidney function. Chronic kidney disease, as we know, can be divided into 5 stages according to glomerular filtration rate. In the fifth stage, GFR is less than 15. Hopefully, as long as patients with kidney failure can increase the GFR to 10 to 15, the frequency of dialysis can be less. And as long as the GFR increases to more than 15, patients with renal failure can refuse or get rid of dialysis.
So how can we increase the index of GFR? To achieve this, we should mainly rely on the help of stem cell transplant. Stem cells are initial cells with strong self-renewing and multi-differentiation abilities. They are infused into human body through intravenous injection, and then stem cells will transfer into the kidney lesions by auto-homing function. Stem cells can adjust the immune disorder at the same time and generate into new renal intrinsic cells to replace the scarred ones.
Usually before and after the application of Stem Cell Transplant, Chinese Medicine is used to create a favorable environment for the growth of stem cell transplant.
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