The kidneys are organs which fulfill many vital functions. They eliminate toxins from the blood, produce urine to remove the waste fluid from the body, regulate blood pressure, red blood cell formation, maintain  bone structure, etc. Once the kidneys are no longer functioning at a capacity of at least 15%, all these processes are impaired, and the person with the End Stage Renal Disease  needs to be included in dialysis to survive with the help of the medical procedure replacing kidneys function. The patient is connected to a blood-filtration machine called artificial kidney, at least 3 times a week, for a  3-4 hours session.

Your doctor has told you the diagnosis: end stage renal disease: “Your kidneys are out of work,” the specialist explains.

Millions of people all over the world manage to adopt and lead a quality life even being on dialysis.

You will definitely succeed as well!

“The diagnosis, the thought that my whole life is going to be dependent the dialysis machine, initially shook me, but then I went beyond that. I started to learn about it and I understood that hemodialysis means life. At the Dialysis Center, I never felt that I was a burden, but on the contrary, I found the moral, physical and psychological support of each employee. Renal insufficiency requires you to follow a strict regimen, but this should not be seen as a limitation of patient activities, but rather makes it more confident”, Inga Rusu, 37 y.o.

Because your chronic kidney disease has reached the end stage and the kidneys are no longer able to “clean” the blood, a very large amount of toxins and fluid is accumulated in your body.

In some cases, the toxin concentration is over 5-20 times higher than in healthy people. These substances cause general intoxication of the body, affecting its normal functioning.

If you feel unwell, have general weakness, are exhausted when doing the things you can easily do, your blood pressure is high, you wake up several times during the night to urinate, your feet are swollen  and you feel dizzy, etc . you have to immediately address to the specialist. Do not delay your doctor’s consultation!

Early diagnosis ensures easier tolerance of dialysis treatment or may even delay the inclusion in dialysis.

When the kidneys functioning capacity is 15%, the body functioning becomes impossible without permanent medical care consisting in the administration of drugs (pharmaceuticals) indicated by the specialist; and in the case of an additional decrease in renal function up to 5% of the normal, absolute signs of kidney function substitution, ie inclusion in dialysis, appear