Can Patients with Uremia Reduce Dialysis Frequency

Dialysis is an important substitutive therapy for patients with Uremia. However, it not only disorders their routine life, but also causes a series of complications. Therefore, the patients on dialysis often have the question “can I reduce dialysis frequency ?” The following article will give you a clear answer.

For patients with Uremia, adequate dialysis is very important. For patients with Uremia, they should have 3 to 4 times of dialysis and it lasts for 4~5 hours per time so as to sustain a stale internal body environment. Before decreasing dialysis frequency, the patients should refer to their residual renal function firstly. If the patients’ disease condition accords with the following conditions:

1. The urine output volume is above 1000 umol/L per day.

2. Blood potassium level keeps within the normal level.

3. The creatinine level is not higher than 400 umol/L before dialysis.

4. The patients with Uremia do not have malnutrition, poor appetite, vomit and other serious complications.

However, for some patients with Uremia, although their urine output volume is above 1000 ml/34 hours, but their creatinine level is 700~900 umol/L and also have hyperkalemia. Those symptoms prove that their residual renal function is very low. In this case, the patients can not decrease their dialysis frequency.

Therefore, before making dialysis schedule, the doctors should take the patients’ residual renal function. The patients with Uremia should receive regular dialysis so as to build up a stable environment and discharge the excessive water and wastes in body.


Hence, regular dialysis is important to improve the patients’ life quality and prolong their life expectancy. The patients with Uremia on dialysis should not reduce their dialysis freely without considering their disease conditions.