Travel may be hazardous to dialysis patients
Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 10:35
in Health & Medicine
If you're sick, travelling to a foreign land may boost your spirits, but jeopardise your health, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA. The findings indicate that dialysis patients who travel on vacation risk infections, anaemia, and other complications that can compromise their dialysis treatments...