How about peritoneal dialysis?

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Peritoneal dialysis commonly known as "washing the stomach", as soon as possible treatment, let your body recover as soon as possible, normal life. It is an important means of long-term treatment and life support for uremia. Because of its many advantages, such as persistence, flexibility, less dietary restriction, no needling, free movement during dialysis, home-based completion, and less cost than hemodialysis, it is chosen by more and more uremia patients. Now let's talk about how to take a bath in peritoneal dialysis?.

How about peritoneal dialysis?

First: during peritoneal dialysis, the dialysate is first poured into the abdominal cavity through the dialysis catheter. After a period of time, the dialysate containing waste and excess water is released from the abdominal cavity, and then the new peritoneal dialysate is poured in, so as to continuously circulate and achieve the purpose of treatment. Dialysis catheter is like a channel of life, which brings the hope of survival to patients. Therefore, how to maintain the dialysis tube is very important for home care of uremic patients.

Second: in order to protect the peritoneal dialysis tube, many patients do not dare to take a bath for a long time. They are worried about wound infection caused by backflow of bath water and accidental extubation. However, keeping the skin clean is also an important link to prevent incision infection, and good health can also maintain the physical and mental health of patients.

Third: Patients with new catheterization cannot take a bath within two weeks after discharge. In these two weeks, according to the method taught by the nurse, we should change the dressing at the outlet of the catheter. When changing dressing every day, observe whether there is redness, swelling, pain and secretion around the outlet. If the healing is good, two weeks later, after removing the stitches from the wound of the peritoneal catheter, you can take a bath.

matters needing attention

1. Before taking a bath, the items to be prepared are: dressing, cotton swab, iodophor, 0.9% normal saline, paper tape, artificial anal bag. 2. Wash hands and remove the dressing from the outlet of the catheter; 3. Check whether the short tube connector is tight, put all the external short tubes of peritoneal dialysis into the artificial anal bag, tear off the adhesive tape on the back of the artificial anal bag, and fix it at the outlet. 4. Start to take a bath, pay attention to the time can not be too long, to prevent the artificial anal bag midway loose. 5. After bathing, take off the artificial anal bag and change the dressing according to the method taught by the nurse.