Do's and Don'ts of Dialysis Patients

     The first thing that a dialysis patient should not do is to drink too much water especially when his/her urine output is low or very low because this could cause edema (swelling) of the legs and other body parts. The worst that a dialysis patient can get from drinking too much water is pulmonary edema wherein water could enter the lung cavity resulting to difficulty in breathing and high blood pressure. If the situation becomes serious the lung could not anymore function properly and the last resort for the doctor is intubation (putting a tube in the trachea of the patient to facilitate breathing with the help of a manual/mechanical pump). Read the whole post at domingobuen.blogspot.com.