Dialysis is a replacement treatment for kidney failure patients when their kidneys lost most of their function, which can help prolong their life expectancy. However, the long term dialysis can also cause some severe side effects for patients, which will affect their life quality. Muscle weakness is a common complication in dialysis, which can be caused by many factors. Then what can cause muscle weakness for dialysis patients?
1. Diet restriction
For all the kidney disease patients, they need to restrict their diet, so they will easily get malnutrition. And patients will lost lots of protein during their dialysis, which will easily cause bone problem for patients.
2. Renal anemia
As we know, renal anemia is one of the common complications in kidney disease, which is mainly caused by kidney damage. Anemia refers to loss of red blood cells. Which have the function of bring oxygen to our body. And the low red blood cells will cause the tissues lack of oxygen, which will easily lead to muscle weakness.
3. High potassium level
High blood potassium level is mainly caused by the low kidney function for dialysis patient, and the high potassium level will cause muscle weakness and even heart problem, such as irregular heart beat, heart failure or even sudden death.
4. Low calcium level
The low calcium level is also mainly caused by kidney damage, and the low calcium level will cause bone problems and even muscle weakness.
5. Lack of exercises
Dialysis patients are often recommended to have a good rest in bed, so they will be lack of physical exercises, which can also cause the muscle weakness.
Above are the main causes of muscle weakness for dialysis patients, so patients need to find the main causes of their muscle weakness and then have effective treatment to relieve their symptom. If you want to get more details of the treatment for dialysis patients, you can ask online doctor .
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