Finding out you need dialysis can be scary. But it’s a common treatment that helps people live well when their kidneys stop working as they should.
In the last stage of kidney disease, the kidneys are no longer able to filter waste from the blood, which is one of their most important jobs. Dialysis can do this work with a machine when your kidneys are no longer able to.
The thought of being hooked up to a machine several times a week might be unsettling. But dialysis can be more flexible — and less scary — than you may think, says Lourdes Gonzalez Suarez, M.D., Ph.D., a kidney specialist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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