2017年2月23日星期四

What Can Cause Confusion and Irritability During Dialysis

What can cause confusion and irritability during dialysis? As we know, dialysis is a replacement and life-saving treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys lost most of their functions. Once patients start dialysis, they may need to live on dialysis all their life long, and they need to take regular dialysis several times in a week. However, the long term dialysis will cause some severe side effects or complications for patients.

Then what can cause confusion and irritability during dialysis?

Dialysis has the function of removing excess fluid and toxins and wastes out into urine. But in some cases, patients may have inadequate dialysis, then the toxins and wastes cant be removed effectively, which will build up in blood stream. If the central nervous system is affected by the toxins and wastes in blood, it will cause the mental confusion for dialysis patients.

Irritability is also a common side effects among dialysis patients, which can be caused by the following 3 main factors.

- Toxins and wastes building up in blood, which can be irritating to the nervous system and cause an increase in irritability.

- Stress caused by chronic illness accounts for a wide range of feelings and moods like general irritability.

- Anemia is a common complication in dialysis, and this can also make dialysis patients getting easily irritable.

How to relieve the mental confusion and irritability in dialysis?

1. Talk to the staff at the dialysis unit about the treatment adjustment, such as increasing the frequency of dialysis.

2. Share your feelings with other patients, family or close friends, they will help you and you will know that you are not alone.

3. Take proper exercises and enjoy and outdoors, which can relax your mind and keep positive.

4. Try to take some natural treatment to help you get rid of dialysis.

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