Patient Education

Body Image, Sexuality, and Fertility

Sexuality, fertility, and maintaining a positive body image are important aspects of life. However, these may be affected when you have kidney disease. Positive body image is a huge factor in sustaining a healthy psychological development while undergoing kidney dialysis.

Following Your Treatment Plan

It is important to make sure that you follow your treatment plan, which is specially designed for your specific condition. Making the commitment to total wellness may seem difficult at first, but this plan was uniquely devised to make sure you are able to live well and feel better as the treatment progresses. The cost of dialysis treatment here in Singapore may not come at a cheap price, but committing to you wellness will make it all worth it.

Working with Your Health Care Team

As you undergo dialysis, you’ll have a team of experts ready to answer your questions, address your concerns and ensure you receive the maximum benefit from the time you spend in treatment.

Understanding Your Kidney Blood Test

Thorough blood tests can help you and your healthcare team understand what is going on inside your body and whether or not your treatment plan is working well as it should.

Long-term Effects of Dialysis

Dialysis can only remove fluid that is in your bloodstream. Only about 15% of the fluid in your body is in your bloodstream. Dialysis takes fluid out of your blood. At the same time, some of the fluid in and between your cells slowly moves into your blood to replace the fluid taken off by dialysis. Dialysis can take fluid out of your blood faster than fluid in and between your cells can move into your blood. Even after a treatment, you may still have extra fluid in and between your cells.

Staying Active

End-stage kidney disease (ESRD) is the last stage of chronic kidney disease. To solve this problem, the only solution is undergoing kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant. People diagnosed with ESRD may lack energy due to the following reasons:

• Anaemia – a shortage of oxygen-carrying red blood cells
• Depression
• Poor sleep
• Lack of exercise
• Inadequate dialysis