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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: billybill1 on July 11, 2009, 10:24:04 PM
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Hello All:
Sauna dialysis is perfectly safe and completely compatible with standard western medicine's treatment for kidney disease, especially for someone who is still in the pre dialysis stage.
A person with impaired kidneys could take sauna for an hour a day. The sauna would be broken up into 6 or seven rounds with breaks in between for cold showers. In my own personal experience that's long enough to sweat out about 2 liters of fluid. And has been proven as your kidneys decline more waste starts exiting through the skin's sweat glands. (Google uremic frost)
While on sauna dialysis a person would continue to get regular blood tests to monitor the program. If the numbers showed that this program was insufficient then the person would be put on a standard form of dialysis. Even if SD was only effective enough to prolong the start of dialysis that would well worth the program for many people. Also people could begin this completely natural benign treatment that cleanses the blood and removes the excess fluid much earlier than with a standard form of dialysis.
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Sharing your own experience about experimenting with saunas and sweating is one thing, but to recommend it as safe "sauna dialysis" is crossing a line. I have researched as much as I can (and I am usually pretty good at finding even obscure references) but there's nothing beyond a study in 1966 and one in 1978, and both were performed on patients who were on dialysis.
You cannot give advice or make recommendations as you could put patients at risk.
You said in an earlier post that you are no longer having lab tests done. I believe that you could eventually put yourself at risk. You also mentioned that you still have 40% kidney function. You cannot really compare your situation to others who may be pre-dialysis but who have less function remaining.
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