With the development of the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
patients’ renal function will be damaged gradually. Then patients have to take
dialysis. With time going on, many patients have the experience that their
dialysis times increase from once a week to three times a week. So many patients
wonder whether this is because they have dependence on the dialysis. Will
patients really have dependence on the dialysis?
I want to ask the patients a question: why does every one of us need to have
meals every day? Is this because we have dependence on the food? No, it is not
because we have dependence on food. Having meals is the normal need of the human
body. Just like having meals, taking dialysis is the need of the damaged
kidneys. As we all know that dialysis is also called “artificial kidney”, which
means that the function of dialysis is to replace the human kidneys to work. But
dialysis is just an adjuvant therapy for the kidney diseases. It takes no
measures for the causes and damage of kidney. During the period of taking
dialysis, the kidneys are continuously being damaged. So the dialysis times will
gradually increase.
Therefore, when the kidney is damaged to certain level, dialysis is
necessary. On one hand dialysis can relieve the burden of the kidneys and reduce
the damage caused by the retented harmful substances. At the same time, dialysis
can provide a relatively clear environment for other treatment methods.
However, to treat kidney diseases, dialysis is not the fundamental therapy.
Besides, it will bring great economic and life burden for the patients. In
addition to dialysis, patients should take fundamental therapy to control the
development of the kidney diseases proceeding from the root causes.
