What is Adequate Hemodialysis

Haemodialysis is a process in which the patient’s blood is led out of the body into a dialyser where the excess water, toxins and electrolyte are filtered out and basic group is added into the blood, then the purified blood would be back into the body. The hemodialysis can do replace what the kidney ought to do but can not do because of the pathological changes.

Kidney has many important functions for our body. Apart from excreting the metabolic wastes out of the body, it could also adjust the metabolism and have endocrine functions as well.

Dialysis can only replace 20 percent of the filtering function of the kidneys; other functions kidneys possess can not be replaced by kidneys, like composition, disintegration and secretion of hormones, secretion of EPO(erythropoietin) and active vitamin D, etc.

Long-time dialysis can lead to complications like anemia and metabolic disorder of the bone.

Adequate dialysis means that the dialysis can clear enough toxins and water out of the body, and patients feel comfortable and can enjoy a relatively high quality of life. Clinically, the following indicators are often used to evaluate whether the dialysis is adequate or not:

1. Patients have no overt discomfort during dialysis, can take care of themselves and do family chores. And patients have good nutrition, better appetite and physical strength and increased dry weight.

2. During the period of dialysis, the increased weight does not surpass 3% to 5% of the patient's dry weight, and the patients’ electrolyte and PH balance does not have obvious changes.

3.The blood pressure can be sustained at the normal range(with the help of the hypotensor), and heart failure do not present.

4. During dialysis, circulatory accident does not happen and long-term complications related to dialysis do not occur.

5. With the normal diet, the BUN is sustained at an acceptable level. After dialysis, the BUN level would be lowered by 60% to 70%.


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Can Dialysis Treat Patients with Uremia Effectively

Kidney Disease(Uremia) has always been one of the most difficult medical problems in the world. Although there are some improvements on the treatment of Uremia these years, but for the suffering patients with Uremia, it is only like a drop in the ocean. And with the aggravation of our environment, and the accelerating pace of life, morbidity of Uremia is rising up day by day. According to the incomplete statistics, there are 100 patients with Uremia in 1 million people.
To one's joy, when we enter into 21 century, this problem has been remitted. With the development of Micro-technology, conquering Uremia can be expected too seen.

When we talk about Uremia, we have to refer to dialysis and kidney transplantation. These two therapies are the most popular treatment of Uremia. But popular is not equal to common, treat is not cure. Although the above treatment have been improved several times, but there are really a lot of disadvantages.

Dialysis----making patients linger about hope and disappointment.
Advantages of dialysis: it can remit the illness symptoms of patients with Uremia.

To some extent, dialysis machine plays a role of artificial kidneys, it can lower the index of serum creatinine, and it can discharge the toxin out of patients' body, thus remitting the patients' poisoning symptoms. Patients with Uremia taking dialysis in the early stage is very important, positive, and timely. It can improve patients' quality of life greatly.

Disadvantage of dialysis: patients with Uremia will live on dialysis, and dialysis will damage patient's renal function seriously.

Taking dialysis doesn't mean that patients with Uremia will have nothing to worry about. On the contrary, dialysis can only remit the symptoms of Uremia, it is not equal to renal function, and Uremia cannot be cured by dialysis. After dialysis, patients with Uremia in the end stage will appear obvious damage of general organs, and they will have more and more complications. Patients with Uremia will have a poor quality of life, short lifetime, decreasing original renal function and so on. What is more, with the increased frequency of dialysis, patients will strongly depends on dialysis. With the aggravation of kidney function, frequency of dialysis will be more and more. If the function of all the glomerulus are necrotic, the life of patients with Uremia will have an end.


Since we have known that dialysis cannot treat patients with Uremia effectively, patients should find an effective treatment which can repair the damaged kidneys greatly beside dialysis. If you have more questions about dialysis or about treatment for patients with Uremia, you are welcome to consult us! Hope you can get healthy as soon as possible!

Diets and Nutrition Care for Kidney Disease Patients after Dialysis (Hemodialysis)

Traditional Chinese Medicine theory always attaches great importance to dietary therapy. For example, in the Neijing, it stressed “attacking a pathogenic factor with a poisonous drug, cultivating the body by five kinds of grains, assisting the body by five kinds of fruits, benefiting the body by five kinds of domestic animals, fulfilling the body by five kinds of vegetables”.

Likewise, favorable diets and nutrition care are important for the patients after dialysis. According the summary of the clinical practice, the patients who are doing dialysis need to obey the following diets principles.

1, take in proper amount of protein

1) For patients who take dialysis three times a week, the intake of protein should be 1.5g/Kg of weight per day.

2) For the patients who take dialysis twice per week, the intake of protein should be 1g/Kg of weight per day.

And the high quality protein should account for more than 50%. For example, the patients can have one egg and 200ml pure milk or two eggs (but one eat one yolk) and 100ml milk, which accounts for 12-15g high quality protein.

2, take in enough calorie.

Usually, the patients need to take in 35-40Kcal/Kg of weight per day. And the patients should take in food that contains low vegetable protein while high calorie, such as sweet potatoes and silk noodles. In the diet, the fat should account for less than 30% and the cholesterol should be less than 300mg per day. The patients should eat less fatty and fried food. And choose the plant oil instead of animal oil to cook.

3, make a good control of the intake of water and salt (sodium), which is rather important for improving the life quality of patients, relieving the edema, avoiding heart failure and controlling the high blood pressure.

4, don’t take in food rich in potassium and phosphorous.

The hyperkalemia is very common among the patients doing dialysis. Besides, due to the remove obstacle of phosphorous and the secondary hyperparathyroidism, the patients should control the intake of the phosphorous.


All in all, favorable diets and nutrition care can help to control the patients’ weight and reduce the complications of dialysis, realizing taking dialysis without symptoms. By this, we can improve the patients’ life quality and prolong the patients’ life.

Dialysis for Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD): Right or Wrong

Many patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) are put on dialysis out of helplessness and advice from doctors. Then is dialysis right or wrong for Polycystic Kidney Disease patients? Is there a better way available?

Dialysis, a kidney substitute therapy, is usually applied when the kidneys are severely damaged and can not fulfill their normal filtrating and excreting functions. Although dialysis can help temporarily excrete accumulated metabolic wastes, the kidneys can not be repaired through dialysis.

As our body produces metabolic wastes continuously, patients will have to rely on dialysis to excrete the wastes. On the one hand, after dialysis, patients feel temporarily relieved; one the other hand, however, besides the cost, each time after dialysis, patients may feel rather fatigued. In addition, chances of complications and infections will increase with time.

Polycystic Kidney Disease, characterized by growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys, develops gradually and continuously. The cysts develop both in number and in size with time, gradually causing kidney augment in size and in shape. The augmented cysts put pressure on the kidneys, pressing kidney nephrons and renal tissues. Consequently kidney function declines gradually. In case kidneys are so severely damaged that they can not fulfill their normal filtrating functions of metabolic wastes. At this time, dialysis is taken into consideration, which, is not a fundamental way and can not prevent the cysts from growing.

Dialysis, right or wrong? The advantage of dialysis lies in that it can temporarily help to get rid of metabolic products, which creates a stable internal environment for another therapy to take on effect. Such a therapy should have the function of controlling and shrinking the cysts. We may seek the answer from traditional Chinese medicine which has thousands of years' history and can treat disease from root causes.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, more than simple Chinese medicine, is the super-finely shattered Chinese medicine of kidney disease. With external application, the effective medicine is penetrated to kidney lesions, for which the medicine can be made full use of. Compared with dialysis, they are easy to perform and brings no side effects.

More exactly, Micro-Chinese Medicine can function to shrink and control the cysts from two aspects;

Firstly, expand blood vessels around the cysts, accelerate blood circulation on cyst walls, promote permeability on cyst walls, reverse the pressure difference between the internal of the cysts and blood vessels; eventually cystic fluid can be reabsorbed and excreted with urine.

Secondly, soften cyst walls and prevent the cyst from swelling by inhibiting secretion of cyst epithelial cells, for which the cysts can be withdrawn gradually.

With the above two measures, the cysts can be withdrawn and well controlled. And relapse can also be avoided.


To know more about dialysis and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, you may read other articles on our website or ask our experts online.

A Brief Introduction: What Is Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is mainly caused by abnormal gene and some patients’ disease also can be caused by genetic mutation but this case is rare. PKD can run in the family and both girl and boy have 50% chance of getting the disease. PKD can be inherited to children by two ways.

(1) Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): patients with this kind of PKD usually do not have any symptoms until their adulthood.

(2) Autosoma Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD): patients with this kind of PKD often have obvious symptoms when they are still babies.

Clinically, ADPKD is more common and nearly covers 5~10% patients with End Stage Renal Failure. Its clinical symptoms mainly consist of enlarged kidney, back pain, hematuria, proteinuria and hypertension. At terminal stage, the patients can often develop into Renal Failure. Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) mainly includs the following symptoms.

(1) Enlarged kidney

In the early time, the cysts are small so patients do not have abnormal symptoms. However, as the patients grow older, the number and size of cyst will increase and enlarge. After the disease develops into terminal stage, both of patients’ kidneys can be covered with cysts.

(2) Back pain

Most patients often feel painful in their renal area. They often have a dull pain and even a violent pain in their back. The pain can be aggravated by physical activities, walking too long and so on. Moreover, bleeding in kidney and kidney stone or infection often causes of violent pains.

(3) Hematuria

About half of patients with PKD have microscopic hematuria and sometimes they can be companied with gross hematuria. This is caused by the angiorrhoxis on the cyst wall.

(4) Renal function insufficiency

For all patients with PKD, if they can not receive effective treatment, their diseases will develop into renal function insufficiency. In some cases, some patients may have renal function insufficiency during their teenager time. However, most of patients begin to have renal function insufficiency after 40 years old and some patients even do not have symptoms when they are older than 70 years old. However, hypertension can shorten the time that the disease develops into renal function insufficiency.


The above article gives a brief introduction of PKD. If you want to know more about PKD and their therapy, you can consult us on line or email us.

How Much Do You Know Early Symptoms of Nephritic Syndrome

Nephritic Syndrome is not simply a disease. It is a group of syndromes in Glomerular Disease. The main symptoms of Nephritic Syndrome mainly include mass proteinuria, hypoproteinemia, serious edema and hyperlipidaemia.

1. Mass proteinuria

Mass proteinuria is a typical sigh of Nephritic Syndrome. As patient’s kidney is aged, its structure changes a lot. As a result, the glomerular filtration membrane can not play its role as before. The normal glomerular filtration membrane can filtrate plasma protein selectively thus preventing much plasma protein from filtrating from glomeruli. Therefore, only trace amounts of protein appears in urine.

2. Hypoproteinemia

Serum albumin is below 30g/L. For patients with Nephrotic Syndrome, their liver can produce more albumins. If they have enough protein and calorie intake, their liver can produce about 22.6 grams albumin per day. However, as patients lose much protein in their urine. When the liver’s compensation in producing protein can not make up for the protein that loses in urine, the patients will have hypoproteinemia.

3. Serious edema

In the early time, the patients have edema on their face, eyelid, and ankle in the morning. However, as the disease develops, the edema will cover their whole body. Some patients will have pleural effusion, ascitic fluid, hydropericardium and so on. Some patients can not lie upward for serous edema. There are two causes of edema. On one hand, the patients’ renal function declines so it cause water and sodium retention in their body. It is an important cause of edema. On the other hand, mass proteinuria causes the plasma protein to decline. As a result, plasma colloid osmotic pressure decreases thus the water in blood will infiltrate into tissues spaces and cause edema.

4. Hyperlipidaemia

It is caused by the lipid metabolism disturbance. For patients with Nephritic Syndrome, various kinds of lipoprotein in blood will increase. Hyperlipidaemia increase the risk of arteriosclerosis. Also, it is closely related to the progressive glomerulosclerosis.


The above article has introduced the main symptoms of Nephritic Syndrome. If you want to know more about the disease and it therapy, you can consult us on line or email us.

Diabetes Can Develop into Diabetic Nephropathy

With the life style changing, more and more people get Diabetes. Maybe most of patients just know that Diabetes can cause a series of complications such as eye disease, diabetic foot and so on. However, they do not know that if they do not prevent Diabetes development, it will develop into Diabetic Nephropathy. What’s worse, nearly 40% of patients with Diabetic Nephropathy can develop into End Stage Renal Failure.

At early stage, Diabetic Nephropathy does not have symptom but their kidney function is declining silently. Once the patients have edema, hypertension and so on, in most cases, their diseases have developed into medium and even terminal stage. At that time, it is very difficulty for patients to have an effective treatment. Therefore, the patients should take preventive treatment in advance so as to prevent the disease development. The patients with Diabetes should go to see a doctor at once in renal function insufficiency when they have the above abnormal symptoms. If the are diagnosed with Diabetic Nephropathy, they should take effective treatment at once to delay the disase development. Then what should the patients do? As follows:

1. They should control their blood sugar effectively, which can decline the further damage to renal function.

2. Control their blood pressure within 130/80mmHg. If the patients have 1 gram of protein in their urine within 24 hours, they should keep their blood pressure within 125/75 mmHg.

3. If patients have edema or hypertension, they should keep the intake of salt less than 3 grams per day.

4. If patients have proteinuria, they should keep their intake of protein within 0.8 grams /kg.


In order to prevent Diabetes from developing into Diabetic Nephropathy, the patients should treat effective treatment when they just have Diabetes. If the disease develops into Diabetic Nephropathy, it will become more difficult for them to treat the disease.