Causes and Treatment of Cramps after Dialysis
2016-10-11 14:51
Some dialysis patients complain that they are suffering from cramps after dialysis, and it can more or less influence the quality of their life. In order to help this part of patient, i will share you some knowledges about cramps after dialysis, hoping it can help you.
What causes cramps after dialysis?
Muscle cramps of the hands, feet or legs is fairly common on dialysis. Though the cause of muscle cramps is unknown, three conditions that seem to increase cramping are: hypotension; the patient being below dry weight; use of low sodium dialysis solution.
Muscle cramps are more commonly associated with low blood pressure. It also can occur when you are below your dry weight. The severe muscle cramps experienced near the end of the dialysis treatment and persisting for a time after dialysis often is due to dehydration.
How to treat cramps after dialysis?
When you are cramping and have low blood pressure, the dialysis staff may give normal saline, which can increase the fluid in your body and muscle cramps may be relieved. In addition, hypertonic saline or glucose may be given. Heat and massage for the cramping muscle can ease the pain. For chronic leg cramps, they may prescribe Quinine, Carnitine or another medication. To avoid cramping, be sure to stick to your fluid and sodium restrictions every day. Maintaining a balance between your dry weight and fluid gains is necessary.
To be frankly, all those measures we mentioned above just can relieve cramps temporary, if you want to solve this problems from its root, you’d better take some alternatives of dialysis. Here i recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy to you, it is an effective treatment of kidney failure. With the help of this treatment, the dialysis patient can reduce the dialysis times gradually, even, get a chance to get rid of dialysis.
If you want to know more details about this treatment or want to live a quality life without dialysis, you can send email to us, we will try our best to help you.
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