Kidney Failure in general

Well luckily I have never had kidney failure, but I have done a work placement in the renal ward, which is for kidney dialysis patients, so hopefully my review will help those prepare for what will happen if they do ever have kidney failure. When is Kidney Dialysis used? --------------------------------------------- Kidney Dialysis is used usually when between 10-20% of your kidney is still working. This is called End Stage Renal Failure. Why is it used? ---------------------- It is used when your kidneys are not fully functional; it does some of the work that your own kidney would do. Although it can not do as much as your ...  Read the complete review

Peritoneal Dialysis has moved on to CCPD, continuous cycle peritoneal dialysis. Basically you hook yourself up to a machine, about the size of an old style video recorder, at night and when you wake up in the morning the dialysis is done. This allows you to work, look after children etc, without having to stop and drain out or require special facilities at work. Almost a normal life!

When I was 3 months pregnant I had a scan like all mum to be's. What they told me shattererd our world. I was having twins, two boys was the first bit of news, so with that taken in they went on to tell me that one of my unborn sons had a "little" problemn. He had Post urethal valve failure, which meant in laymans terms that he was not having the use of his bladder. He was not weeing like he suppose. They then offered me a termination as I already had three sons and this one was going to take a lot of care etc. With that I promptly changed medical authority as I felt that they were not even contempating giving my unborn ...  Read the complete review

I have thought quite a bit about writing this opinion as l want to try and do the subject justice. I have experienced living with kidney failure and its treatment second hand - my father suffered from this. I cannot remember a specific time when daddy's kidneys failed - now that l know more he must have been suffering symptoms, but as kids we were not told of the seriousness of the matter. He worked in a stressful job and his blood pressure was high - since l have now looked at the background of kidney failure l realise this is a cause of the failure. I can remember though dialysis beginning from when l was about 15 (lm 27 now) so it has been on going over ...  Read the complete review