Don't be afraid, learn about peritoneal dialysis!

Peritoneal dialysis is a high-quality and advanced treatment method. It has been widely used in clinical practice in recent years. It provides good support for people's disease treatment and enables patients to recover their health as soon as possible. However, most patients lack knowledge about peritoneal dialysis and are prone to fear of this treatment method, which leads to insufficient compliance and affects the overall treatment effect. Let us take a deeper look at peritoneal dialysis.

1. What is peritoneal dialysis?

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) actually refers to a dialysis method that uses the body's own peritoneum as a dialysis membrane. The dialysate infused into the body's peritoneal cavity exchanges solutes and water with the plasma components in the capillary blood on the other side of the peritoneum, removes the metabolic products and excess water retained in the body, and replenishes the body's necessary substances in the process, constantly renewing the dialysate to achieve the role of kidney replacement and achieve the purpose of treatment. In recent years, this technology has continued to mature and has been widely used in clinical practice. It has a positive significance for the treatment of various diseases and has significant application value.

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1. Advantages of peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis has strong application advantages. For example, during peritoneal dialysis, there is no need to establish vascular access or use anticoagulants, which reduces the risk of bleeding, has high overall safety, and has high clinical application value. Peritoneal dialysis is a home treatment method. The overall operation is simple and convenient. The treatment time can be selected according to the actual situation of the patient. It has strong flexibility and can effectively reduce costs. Peritoneal dialysis uses its own advantages to carry out treatment. It has strong hemodynamic stability, which can protect the patient's residual renal function, reduce the damage caused by treatment to the human body, and improve overall safety. Peritoneal dialysis has a high efficiency in removing molecular toxins from the human body. Compared with traditional hemodialysis, it is better, can effectively improve the patient's clinical symptoms, improve the patient's quality of life, and achieve the treatment goal. Peritoneal dialysis does not require the patient's blood to be drawn out of the body, thereby reducing the risk of cross-infection, such as hepatitis B, syphilis, hepatitis C, AIDS, etc., reducing blood waste, reducing the risk of anemia in patients, ensuring the quality of life of patients, and reducing the impact on cardiovascular disease. It has strong advantages for patients with poor vascular conditions.

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Peritoneal dialysis is suitable for many people, so which group of people is more suitable for this method? For example, the elderly, children, infants, etc. Because peritoneal dialysis has relatively little effect on the cardiovascular function of the human body during application, and does not require vascular puncture, children and the elderly are more likely to accept it, especially patients with myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular accident, arrhythmia and recurrent hypotension, the application advantages are more obvious.

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It has more application advantages for some patients with refractory hypertension, unstable cardiovascular status, or a history of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It also has more application advantages for patients with poor vascular conditions or repeated arteriovenous fistula failures.

It is also suitable for some patients who may have obvious coagulation disorders such as intracranial hemorrhage, gastrointestinal bleeding, intracranial hemangioma, or patients with bleeding or bleeding tendency, or patients who have no time during the day or patients with residual renal function. It has stronger application advantages.

Peritoneal dialysis is not restricted by time or region, so this method is suitable for patients in remote areas, such as mountainous areas and rural areas. Patients can receive treatment at home. The operation is simple and convenient, and it has strong application advantages.

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1. Misconceptions about peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis is not the first choice. Clinically, hemodialysis is the main treatment for patients with uremia. Usually, patients will only consider peritoneal dialysis treatment when they cannot undergo hemodialysis due to various reasons, such as internal fistula, active bleeding and other factors. As a result, most patients in clinical practice have misunderstandings and believe that peritoneal dialysis is not the first choice, but the second choice. In fact, it is not. Except for some patients with contraindications to hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, they can actually choose their own treatment method. This is conducive to patients building confidence in treatment and facing the disease with a positive attitude. In the process of development, with the continuous development of technology, how to ensure the patient's prognosis after treatment becomes a key point to improve the overall treatment effect of the patient.

It is also a common misunderstanding that peritoneal dialysis cannot be performed for a long time. The main reason for this factor is the influence of non-medical factors at this stage. After most patients fail hemodialysis, the patients' own physical condition is not good and they finally choose peritoneal dialysis for treatment. In fact, peritoneal dialysis can be carried out for a long time, has a good control effect on patients' symptoms, and has significant application value.

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Peritoneal dialysis has a significant impact on patients' daily lives. This concept is also a common misunderstanding. The main reason is that the peritoneal dialysis technology in the last century was not mature enough. Disinfectants were needed to be cleaned during the treatment process to ensure the safety of the dialysis tubes. The operation was complicated and cumbersome, which made contamination prone and increased various complications. The current technology is relatively mature. A disposable double-bag system is used for treatment. No disinfectant is needed, which simplifies the overall operating procedures and improves safety. The process can be simplified during the treatment process, making patients more adaptable and showing time flexibility, which has a higher application value.

It is a misunderstanding that peritoneal dialysis will affect kidney transplantation. Traditionally, it is believed that peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation are in the same abdominal cavity and may have an impact, but in fact they do not.

Conclusion : In summary, with the continuous maturity of technology, peritoneal dialysis has been widely used in clinical practice to provide patients with high-quality treatment methods. We should pay more attention to it, innovate from multiple angles, and rationally use technical treatment to enable patients to recover their health as soon as possible and get rid of the pain as soon as possible.