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Dialysis patients should have a healthy and balanced diet to stay a good life. Patients’ kidneys cannot get rid of enough waste products and fluids from their blood and your body now has special needs. Therefore, the right amounts of energy, fluids (water), proteins, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements need to be consumed each day. […]

A healthy person has 2 kidneys in his body. They are located just behind our abdomen, on both sides of the spine, below the lowest rib.  Each kidney is the size of a human fist. An average of 5 liters of blood circulates in our body per day.  Our kidneys filter this amount of blood […]

A machine connected to you in hemodialysis takes the blood from your body, filters it through the dialyzer (artificial kidney) and cleans the blood. It then returns the clean blood to your body. It is a process that takes 3-5 hours . It can take place three times a week in a hospital or dialysis […]

Can Dialysis cure my kidney disease ? Generally, no. In chronic or end-stage renal disease, your kidneys cannot recover with dialysis treatment. You will need dialysis for the rest of your life until your kidney transplant. If your doctor says you may be a candidate, you may choose to be on the waiting list for […]

What is Dialysis ? Dialysis is a procedure that removes waste products and excess fluid from the blood for people whose kidneys are not working well enough. Normally, the kidneys filter the blood. It converts harmful waste products and water into urine and removes them from the body. When you have kidney failure, the kidneys […]

Hemodialysis is a very important procedure that saves lives when the kidneys are not working enough. This procedure can cause some important side effects and complications. Many problems can occur in this process, which is based on removing the blood from the body and cleaning it in the dialysis machine. Some complications arise from a […]

Nocturnal dialysis is a slower, longer hemodialysis treatment that takes place at night while you sleep. It takes 6-8 hours per night and three or more times per week. This procedure can take place at home or in a dialysis center.        There are two ways to have nocturnal dialysis: In center nocturnal […]

When you are a dialysis patient, the ability to travel can be important for your motivation. Whether you are on in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis (HHD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) or in-center nocturnal dialysis, you can go on a vacation which will allow you to still get dialysis treatments either at a dialysis center or by bringing […]