Peritoneal dialysis helps to remove excessive fluids from the body, during which blood pressure is alway lowered. Low blood pressure is very dangerous and patients may just feel wretched when blood pressure is slightly lowered, but when it decreases to an extremely lower level, shock occurs. Well what to do to avoid such a condition when lower blood pressure happens during peritoneal dialysis.
To know the answer clearly, let's learn how does lower blood pressure occur firstly.
Peritoneal dialysis can only remove water that is in your blood. For people with serious swelling symptom, most of the fluids exist in the tissues, not in the blood. When fluids in the blood vessels are removed away within 3 or 4 hours, fluids among tissues can not ooze into blood vessels timely, as a result of which, bloodstream in blood vessels decreases and blood pressure decreases as well.
What to do when lower pressure happens during peritoneal dialysis?
Many methods can be adopted to prevent or treat low blood pressure during peritoneal dialysis.
About how to prevent low blood pressure in peritoneal dialysis
1. Be sure your dry weight is right
2. Make sure your dialysis machine is set correctly before dialysis
3. You can do nocturnal home hemodialysis, instead of peritoneal dialysis because nocturnal home dialysis does not cause low blood pressure easily.
About what to do when low blood pressure occurs in peritoneal dialysis?
1. Choose sodium modeling, because sodium helps pull fluid from the tissues into blood.
2. Slow down the filtration rate when the dialysis is near the end of the dialysis.
3. Drink some salty water
4. Make you head is lower than your feet
These are just some of the most common management on low blood pressure during peritoneal dialysis. If you are interested, you can contact us to learn more effective treating measures.
Low blood pressure is a common and leading risky event during peritoneal dialysis and if not managed properly, patients will lose their life. Therefore, learning these basic knowledge is very necessary for peritoneal dialysis patients.
