why the skin color, change for the people they take dialisys treament?
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A variety of reasons - some patients on dialysis are very pale because they have chronic anemia. Kidney failure patients do not make enough red blood cells and they also often loose blood during the dialysis. They are often treated with the hormone EPO (erythropoetin) which helps them increase their own blood cells. It is better for them to get used to being somewhat anemic and get blood transfusions as rarely as possible because transfusions can sometimes cause problems like iron overload and antibody production especially if they are kidney transplant candidates.
There are other reasons that they may have skin changes as well - from being uremic and from certain medications.
unfortunately dialysis doesn't work as efficiently as your kidneys in cleaning the toxins from your body
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