How long can a person go without a dialysis treatment?
If you are on dialysis, you know the importance of receiving your treatments as scheduled. When you miss dialysis treatments the toxins build up in your blood causing you to become sick. The longer you go without treatments, the sicker you will become. Naturally, every person is different, but generally how long a person can go without dialysis depends on the amount of kidney function they still have. If someone is passing a reasonable amount of urine, they may be able to survive a few weeks to over a month. For someone who makes little or no urine the time would be a few days to a couple weeks.
You get edema (fluid overload) which effects your heart and lungs, and you generally feel unwell and end up getting sick a lot. This of course depends on if you have any function left in your kidneys how long you will be able to go without treatment. You can have heart attacks, strokes, etc. Also your Potassium going up effects your heart and yoru Phosphate going up can lead to vascular calcification
or life threatening Calciphylaxis
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