Should Dialysis Centers Allow Food and/or drink?

[mikey07840]

My Home PD clinic has very similar rules:

1. Patient may eat or drink at any time.
2. Patient may dress as comfort requires.
3. Patient is required to tell nearby feline how handsome or pretty he/she is. (As needed and apples.) Kitty massages must be provided by patient.
4. Patient is required to work with tech (self) by resolving all machine alarms.

I cannot express how happy I am with my ability to do home PD. I don't miss going to the outpatient center 30 minutes from my home 3x a week.

[twirl]

I WANT TO GO TO DIALYSIS AT THE MIKEY CLINIC

[pdpatty]

If the clinic I use would say no to bottled water,i would comply. The man who sits acroos the pod from me has a porblem with high patassium so while on the machine ,his girlfriend will bring him a diet Mt Dew(also a diabetic).Diet Mt Dew has 2 types potassium as sweeteners.He will also eat porkrinds.
I use a very good clinic because the Doctors care.

[thegrammalady]

If the clinic I use would say no to bottled water,i would comply. The man who sits acroos the pod from me has a porblem with high patassium so while on the machine ,his girlfriend will bring him a diet Mt Dew(also a diabetic).Diet Mt Dew has 2 types potassium as sweeteners.He will also eat porkrinds.
I use a very good clinic because the Doctors care.

it's not the clinics responsibility to make sure people follow the necessary dietrestrictions. "you can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink" and unfortunately while the staff can't really force a patient to be compliant they have to deal with the fall out from those who aren't compliant.

[RichardMEL]

The thing that you gotta wonder about if a patient has problems with high K and they're in center and the staff see this guy drinking a K laiden drink wouldn't you think someone would say something to him?? Now OK if he and his gf don't want to follow that fine but sheesh. It's amazing what some people will do to themselves...

The worst part is in this day and age say something bad happens to this guy as a result of high K what bet they sue the clinic or doctors despite their obvious irrepsonsibility in the area..... That's the sort of thing that really annoys me. People who take no responsibility for their own actions but then blame others for it. Somehow it must be the clinc's fault or the doctors fault that they didn't follow their diet or had too much fluid or whatever....

*sigh*

Oh and by the way I want to make it clear I am hardly the poster child for great diet habits, but if someone said to me "your X level is high you should really avoid A B & C" I sure as hell would. I'm doing my best (within some limits) to take care of what's left of my body. Some people just don't.

[wrandym]

At my center there are plenty of people who sit there with a bag of chips and a large fountain soda.  I talked to one gentleman about his diet and he said that he has been on dialysis for years and is not pursuing a transplant-he is going to live his life as he pleases.  I guess that is his prerogative, but I am new to all of this and want to stick around a while    I do have issues staying under my fluid intake level.  I am used to having a large mug of iced tea full and at my side all of the time...gosh I am thirsty.