Ludhiana, May 21
In a “patient education programme” on advanced kidney diseases organised at Deepak Hospital here today, senior nephrologist Dr Rajan Isaacs and hospital dietician Ms Ritika Lamba apprised the patients with the nature of their underlying problems, the dietary restriction that were needed and the dialysis or kidney transplantation.
The patients and their family members were also told that some of the common medicines used in routine as self-medication could seriously damage their kidneys. At times such kind of self-medication could lead to huge loss of money and sometimes could even take the life of the critically ill patient. The programme was attended by approximately 200 patients and their attendants.
Dr Rajan Isaacs focused on the functions of kidney, causes of kidney failure, symptoms of kidney diseases, treatment options for patients suffering from kidney disease, types of dialysis, common complications that happened in kidney failure and the situations in which dialysis was helpful. Besides this, patients were also explained about continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (home dialysis) and kidney transplantation.
Ms Lamba gave an in-depth idea to patients on dietary restrictions in kidney failure and ways to make food tastier in spite of all the restrictions. This was followed by an open question and answer session where individual problems of patients were discussed and addressed.
Dr Isaacs claimed that the institution was one of the leading centres in care of patients suffering from all types of kidney diseases. “It is equipped with latest dialysis machines and presently doing over 1000 dialyses per month. Besides this the nephrology unit is well recognised for its laparoscopic and endo-urological surgeries.” He said the hospital had also started a kidney help line service (phone no. 0161-2451500) for the patients through which the patients could directly get in touch with kidney specialists and discuss their problems relating to kidney disease, diet and medication.
