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- when should dialysis be started
- when should dialysis be initiated
- when should kidney dialysis start
- at what stage do you need dialysis
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When To Start Dialysis
When you know your kidneys are failing, it's normal to want to put off dialysis forever. Common wisdom used to say that starting dialysis early was best for you.
Can kidneys start working again after dialysis?
The funny thing about common wisdom, though, is it could turn out to be wrong. Research now suggests that putting off dialysis as long as you can may be the safer choice.
Stages of chronic kidney disease
The National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) guidelines 1 have divided chronic kidney disease (CKD) into five stages based on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), roughly the measure of your percent kidney function:
Uremia is a build-up of wastes in the blood.
As kidneys fail, this build-up of wastes and excess water in the blood causes symptoms, like:
- Overwhelming fatigue
- Itchy skin (the itching may be so severe that it can wake you up at night)
- Swelling in your hands, feet, or face
- Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, eating less (or no) protein, "metal" taste in your mouth
- Feeling faint or dizzy
- Trouble with mental focus
- Feeling cold when others are warm
- Shortness of breath
- what stage do you start dialysis
- at what stage does one need dialysis