Chinese living on makeshift artificial kidney

Chinese farmer living 13 years on a makeshift artificial kidney
A more precise - in the hemodialysis machine, assembled from discarded parts of the bathroom in a small farm house in eastern China. Three times a week a man named Hu Sonven comes to sit on the toilet in the artificial kidney, which built their own 13 years of kitchen utensils and old medical tools.





In 1993, when Hu Sonven studied at the Institute, he developed kidney failure. For regular cleaning of blood had to resort to dialysis in a hospital. In six years, visits to the office with an artificial kidney Chinese impoverished and decided to no longer pay doctors.

Each routine dialysis blood drawn at home in the closet, a resident of the Chinese heartland costs 60 yuan, which is 8 times cheaper than the same procedure in the clinic. Whenever Hu Sonven puts itself at risk - two of his colleagues were killed in misfortune after the construction and use of such home artificial kidney.

Hu dialysis liquid for preparing himself, using purified water, sodium and potassium chlorides and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). Connect to the machine craftsman introduces two catheter tubes in veins hands. At one point the blood is pumped into another - returns purified from chemical waste.

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Kidney disease in Chinese means that his blood potassium and sodium accumulate in life-threatening quantities. Therefore dialysis fluid Hu Sonven devised such that its ionic composition of sodium and potassium was similar to that of the healthy human blood. As the blood and fluid to run through the apparatus, excess sodium and potassium pass through the membrane from the blood into the solution. Also Hu acid accumulates in the blood, so his solution Sonven add soda.

Doctors periodically threaten all sorts of DIY infections - due to the fact that the farmer is using non-sterile water. When the press made Hu Sonvenya famous and learned of his fate upstairs, the government proposed to go on dialysis Hu to the hospital for the same money he spends to clean up the blood at home. However, for the patient it is very inconvenient, since the nearest hospital with an artificial kidney is not in the corner, and there is always a queue and crowd.

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