Colour (color for you yankees) change

[Bajanne]

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?

[Rerun]

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~   

[LifeOnHold]

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.

[Epoman]

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. 

[LifeOnHold]

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!