>>1117875>With that you have to stay on the machine for the rest of your life?Luckily no. You build up, then flush the toxic substances in regular intervals. The body is strong enough to withstand the buildup in the blood for some time, therefore you only have to dialyse in intervals. To just keep alive prob once a week would be enough, to actually die from the buildup it typically takes weeks, but things like coma etc come much earlier. The consciousness is a very high level function, after losing it to then really die on an organic level takes quite some time.
But to be sure you should probably dialyse after at most a few days. Daily shorter sessions are better than fewer longer ones, that spreasing is of course only done to not having to visit the hospital every day. When the thing is at home people usually use it daily. But you can actively live a few days without it.
