Sentences with phrase «people on dialysis»

Next up was Rochelle Pitt and Melicha Woodcock, presenting on the far - north QLD Cultural Holiday Leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on dialysis.

The brutal truth about this situation is that people on dialysis have a significantly lower life expectancy compared to the average person.

People on dialysis for kidney failure should avoid consuming too many of these potassium - rich foods.

Article adapted from Exercise: A Guide for People on Dialysis by LifeOptions Rehabilitation Advisory Council.

Usually, people on dialysis are limited to 1/2 cup of milk per day.

Having staph aureus in your nose — which is the case for about 30 percent of people — is not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but is a risk factor for getting other infections such as surgical site infections, boils, catheter site infections in people on dialysis and diabetic foot ulcers.

We have hundreds of thousands of people on dialysis.

The weight loss phases of the Atkins Diet should not be used by persons on dialysis.

Not exact matches

Yes people he was on dialysis years back in an American run hospital mind you.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / adventtr More than 382,000 people with kidney disease in the U.S. are on dialysis, a painful procedure that can wreak havoc on blood vessels due to constant jabs from large needles.

«Past studies and patient data have shown that we can improve a person's quality of life and chance of surviving end - stage renal disease if we can avoid or minimize the amount of time they spend on dialysis,» says Ankit Sakhuja, M.B.B.S., a graduate of Mayo Clinic Renal Transplant Fellowship.

«People do it because they have to,» he says, «but you don't want to live for years on dialysis.

Although 17,000 people receive kidneys in the US each year, more than 400,000 are on the waiting list and rely on dialysis machines, so the shortage of available organs remains acute.

It's not natural for people to be on heart medication, daily insulin injections or be on dialysis to live with kidney failure.

Unlike people, pets generally do not go on dialysis for life, but receive dialysis until they are able to make urine and their kidney values stabilize.

The type of amyloidosis which is due to the b2 micro globulin protein may affect people who have been on dialysis for a significant length of time.

Savings on kidney dialysis amounted to $ 3 million during the program, which involved fewer than 300 people.