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When you are on dialysis can you skip a day of treatment?
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Not advised: Normal kidneys filter the blood every second. Patients on dialysis are filtered for 4 hours three times a week. Missing a treatment is not in your interests. Patients are at risk for volume overload and hyperkalemia if they go 5 days without dialysis.
Answered 6/13/2018
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