A question, commonly asked by our patients is: Why doesn’t our blood pressure drop and we feel better?
The answer lies in the following:
The quality of the dialysis water depends on well-functioning equipment for reverse osmosis and on the use of dry bicarbonate as an important prerequisite for avoiding series of complications. While achieving this quality is somehow associated with a certain increase in the cost of the dialysis, it may lead to some notable savings, far more exceeding the funding. The good water quality contributes to anemia improvement and reduces the patients’ needs of erythropoietin. The use of an ultrapure dialysate helps overcoming the chronic inflammatory response that is associated with the erythropoietin in the dialysis solution in blood and the erythropoietin dose is reduced with almost 30% as meanwhile the hemoglobin values are preserved.
During the last years quite weighty arguments were gathered evidencing that chronic inflammatory reaction plays important role in the genesis of the accelerated atherosclerosis in the dialysis patients and it is one the reasons for the higher morbidity and mortality among them. It has been found that by using dialysis with ultrapure dialysate the progress of the dialysis amyloidosis is notably delayed. Therefore, the use of ultrapure dialysate may lead to saving money from the hospital treatment of the complications as well as to provide better prognosis for the dialysis patients and their quality of life.
The most certain way of getting microorganisms- and endotoxins-free dialysis solution is to use dry bicarbonate and regularly to change the ultrafiltration of the dialysis path.
This is the dialysis that Nephrolife offers to its patients.