Thank you NxStage

[obsidianom]

Another advantage to near daily dialysis such as Nxstage is removal of uremic toxins that are protein boundand and hard to remove.

"Removal of indoxyl sulphate and p-cresyl sulphate(p-cresol) can be improved to some extent by increasing the diffusion of the free forms with super-flux membrane HD, increasing the dialyzer transfer area coefficient and dialysate flow, haemodiafiltration,daily HD,------"

Notice that last 2 words, daily HD.  These toxins are very hard to remove with standard 3 day dialysis unless there is more time .


On the other hand note this :

"p-Cresol is a major component in pig odor.[2]
 
p-Cresol is a component in human sweat. It is a component of human odor attractive to female mosquitoes.[3]
 
Temporal glands secretion examination showed the presence of phenol and p-cresol during musth in male elephants.[4][5]"

So guys and gals, we are full of p-cresol that is hard to dialyze out and its in pig sweat, human odor that attracts FEMALE mosquitoes, and male elaphants in musth. There are a WHOLE lot of wise ass remarks I can make about this. Especially to guys and pigsweat and attraction to females----oops , mosquitoes. and like elephant musths.
So the moral of the story, DAILY DIALYSIS TO REDUCE PROTEIN BOUND P-CRESOL or you smell like pig sweat and attract female mosquitoes while in musth.

[Speedy1wrc]

All smart remarks aside, I think the biggest keys are as we all know time and dialysate flow. If you do in center for three hours or at home for three hours I don't know if there would be a statistical difference. I do think frequency obviously matters as you aren't so far behind the with ball each treatment. I can see it inasmuch as I have greatly reduced my blood pressure medicine since being on home hemo. In center my dosages were increasing after a year, and now at home after a year, I am almost completely off any blood pressure medicine.

[amanda100wilson]

Just Before my diagnosis of CKD was made, many 'eons' ago when We were living in Hong Kong, I used to get bitten very badly by mosquitoes, much more so than my husband.  After that we moved to Cyprus, and when I went outside, I used to have a swarm of flies around my head, like PigPen out of the Peanuts stories.  I always attributed it yo abnormal blood chemistry.