Transplantation: Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure Patients

kidney transplant for kidney failure,kidney failure treatment Transplantation, also known as kidney transplant, is one of the most commonly used treatment for kidney failure patients. Because the kidneys have been failed to work adequately, so patients need to transplant new kidney to work for them. In this article, we will learn more about this treatment. 

Kidney transplant refers to the surgery that place a healthy kidney from a donor into your body with kidney failure, and the donor can be a person who has just died or a living person, most often a family member. When you get a suitable donor and do the kidney transplant, there are something you need to pay attention.

1. How to keep your body from rejecting your new kidney

This is the most important thing that you need to concern. Once you did the kidney transplant, your immune system will sense that your new kidney is foreign, which can keep your body from rejecting it. So, you need to take medicines, called immunosuppressants, that turn off, or suppress, your immune system response. You should follow the advice of your doctor to take right amount of medicines on time, which can prevent rejecting.

2. How can you know your body is rejecting your new kidney?

All the kidney transplant patients should also know well of this question. Often, rejection begins before any signs appear. The signs of rejection include indications that your kidney is not working as well as it should—for example, high blood pressure or swelling because your kidney is not getting rid of extra salt and fluid in your body. Advances in immunosuppressants have made other signs of rejection—such as fever, soreness in the lower abdomen where the new kidney is, and a decrease in the amount of urine you make—rare. If you have any of these symptoms, tell your transplant team. You will receive stronger doses of your immunosuppressants and additional medicines to help keep your body from rejecting your new kidney.

Even if you do everything you should, your body may still reject the new kidney, and you may need to go on dialysis again. Unless your transplant team determines that you are no longer a good candidate for transplantation, you can go back on the waiting list for another kidney.

Above are about the things that kidney transplant patients need to know after the surgery. Once patients get failed kidney again, they need to see a nephrologist as early as possible to get more effective treatment. Then it can make a good prognosis for them.