Q: I have been on dialysis for 6 months and I currently get severe headaches
after dialysis. Is this a side effect of dialysis? Is there any thing
helpful?
A: I'm sorry to hear about your headaches at dialysis. Headache is a common
complication of dialysis. The other complications include infection, itchy skin,
nausea, hair loss, sleeping difficulties, low blood pressure and muscle
cramps.
Headache caused by dialysis
Dialysis indeed changes patient’s condition after the treatment and some of
them may relate to the headache.
● change of dialysis fluids
● electrolyte imbalance after dialysis
● imbalanced syndrome caused by rapid decrease of toxins in blood
● blood pressure increases or decreases rapidly.
How to deal with this?
We know that the headache is caused by dialysis. If you want to solve the
problem, we should aims at the underlying root causes—dialysis. In fact, except
dialysis, there are other treatments for kidney failure and meantime, some
treatment helps get rid of dialysis.
To quit the dialysis, your kidney functions should improve a lot. At least,
you kidney functions should be higher than 15%. At Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease
Hospital, we use Chinese herbal medicine, Immunotherapy and immunotherapy to
repair impaired kidneys and improve kidney functions.
These treatments indeed help many patients get rid of dialysis. However,
whether you can achieve this goal, we should know more information about you to
make estimation. If you are in one of the following conditions, it is hard to
say good bye for dialysis.
● no urine output. Urine output is an indicator to know whether our kidney
functions is good or bad. If you the urine output is Zero, the kidneys rarely
work, so it is hard to quit dialysis.
● Serious complications. If you suffer from serious complications, such as
heart failure, it makes the task also tough. (If you have other complication,
you can consult our online free service to ensure whether it is dangerous.)
If you want to know whether you can get rid of dialysis and say goodbye for
the headache forever, you can leave you medical description for us. We will make
an analysis for you shortly.
