Uremia is the end stage of chronic renal failure, and patients entering this stage must receive renal replacement therapy. Hemodialysis is one of the means of renal replacement therapy. In addition to this, renal replacement therapy also includes peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. Long Hua, Department of Endocrinology and Nephrology, Baicheng City Hospital
The so-called renal replacement therapy, to use an analogy, when someone is sick and can’t go to work, he needs to find someone else to replace him to do the work he should have done originally. If he gets better in a few days (note: most of the acute renal failure can be cured), then he can go to work without someone else to cover his shift. However, if his illness is prolonged or even dies, then he needs someone else to do his job completely (which seems to have nothing to do with addiction). Here “he” means kidney, and “someone else” means dialysis or kidney transplant.
Therefore, hemodialysis, as one of the kidney replacement treatments, is not an addiction and can be stopped at any time as long as the kidneys recover their function.