Apr 07 2009
Coping with Kidney Problems
Many patients reach a point where, without replacement of renal function, death would be inevitable. These techniques should be applied, however, the criterion of improving the quality of life for renal patients, and not just its survival when it is presented as a highly embarrassing situation.
This quality of life depends greatly on how prepared everyone is, and how much has been avoided and some risk factors in the pre-dialysis. If it comes to dialysis without hardly have known the disease itself, and significant damage in other organs and functions, quality of life is much less possible.
The treatment not only to try to maintain kidney function and eventually the loss, more control. It also means, for example in patients with diabetes, not to lose the vision nor any of its members, etc.. Many of these people are not meaning to be subjected to dialysis in order to increase their survival when the quality with which we live is extremely precarious.
Care and emotional and psychological support is essential to address the impact that means the replacement and its extension in time.
There is much to be done on prevention and treatment of kidney disease trying to avoid loss of function of this body, and new information will greatly help to achieve this.