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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Bajanne on November 14, 2005, 06:14:02 PM
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I have noticed that people on dialysis get really dark-skinned. I am speaking about the Afro-Caribbean people that I know. My brother, who was on dialysis for 10 years before he passed last year Nov., got really dark. He became absolutely black. I am looking at people in this centre (center) and I am seeing the same thing. I asked the nephrologist about it and he explained something that I didn't understand about pigment cells. What I want to know is, does this happen to Caucasians as well?
And, is there any way to avoid this?
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Good question. I know that white people get "Bronze" skin after being on dialysis for a while. People will say, WOW where have you been to be so tan? DHA~ 8)
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Before we had bicarb dialysis, patients were yellow-- we all looked like we had jaundice. (The old dialysate had acetate, which increased bilirubin and made everyone's skin yellow... bicarb dialysis avoids this.)
Before I got sick I was very pale... I looked like a vampire. :) Then I got yellow, then pink after the transplant (I always had high blood pressure), now I'm back to a somewhat normal skin tone.
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Before we had bicarb dialysis, patients were yellow-- we all looked like we had jaundice. (The old dialysate had acetate, which increased bilirubin and made everyone's skin yellow... bicarb dialysis avoids this.)
Before I got sick I was very pale... I looked like a vampire. :) Then I got yellow, then pink after the transplant (I always had high blood pressure), now I'm back to a somewhat normal skin tone.
She speaks the truth I use to look like I had jaundice.
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She speaks the truth I use to look like I had jaundice.
It's pretty funny that now I'm getting a ride to dialysis with Yellow Cab! :D