Our Dialysis Treatment Options
Fox Valley Dialysis offers three dialysis treatment options: Peritoneal Dialysis, Home Hemodialysis, and Outpatient Hemodialysis. With the help of the multidisciplinary team, you are able to choose the best dialysis treatment option for you or your family member.
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)
Peritoneal Dialysis is performed in the comfort of your home and offers many benefits.
- Ease of travel with the portable dialysis machine
- Treatment is scheduled by you to fit your lifestyle—treatment is usually performed while sleeping
- No needles involved with your treatment
- Freedom to perform your daily activities
- Fewer nutritional restrictions
- Education and support provided by our caring home dialysis team helping you to be successful
- A Registered Nurse fluent in Spanish
To learn more about Peritoneal Dialysis, schedule your appointment to meet the Home Department Registered Nurse by calling 630.236.1300.
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Hemodialysis
Hemodialysis is performed in an outpatient setting three times a week for approximately four hours. You or your family member’s treatment is performed by our caring and professional Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse and a Certified Hemodialysis Technician.
Hemodialysis works by circulating your blood through a special filter which is outside your body called a dialyzer. Your hemodialysis treatment functions as your kidneys by removing the toxins and fluids from your body, assisting with blood pressure control and regulating chemical imbalances.
Hemodialysis requires a type of access to your circulatory system. The dialysis standard is an arteriovenous fistula which is created surgically in your arm. A catheter may be placed in your chest to be used on a temporary basis.
Home Hemodialysis
Home Hemodialysis: Home Hemodialysis is another type of hemodialysis treatment. Rather than receiving dialysis treatments in a center three times a week for approximately four hours each time, Home Hemodialysis with the NxStage System One offers convenient treatments in the comfort of your home. Generally, Home Hemodialysis treatments are shorter (about 2.5 to 3 hours) performed more often (typically five or six days per week).
Our trained Registered Nurses will work with you and your partner to learn how to care for yourself at home. Training includes all aspects of care to allow you to be in control of your therapy. The simple and compact system is designed to provide simplicity, flexibility and portability without compromising safety.
- Some benefits of home hemodialysis include:
- Reduction in heart stress
- Improved sleep
- Faster recovery from treatment
- Improved physical intimacy
- Increased energy
- Improved blood pressure control
- Feeling of being in control of treatment and life
- Less nutritional restrictions
If you would like to learn more about home hemodialysis, schedule your appointment to meet the Home Department Registered Nurse by calling 630.262.1306. A registered nurse fluent in Spanish is available.
REMEMBER: “There’s no place like home.”
