Myths & Facts about Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplantation is giving a healthy kidney to a person who is suffering from Kidney failure. A successful kidney transplant can enable you to live the kind of life you had before you developed kidney disease. A kidney that has to be transplanted comes from a person who had died, a “deceased donor”, or from a living donor. Kidney transplantation is quite common nowadays but people have still several myths related to kidney transplantation. Erase all the misconceptions away you have heard about Kidney Transplantation, as we are filtering out top 5 facts from some of the most common myths here: 1) Anybody can be a living donor Only a healthy person can become a ‘living donor’. As Indian transplant act says, a living donor can only be the recipient’s first-degree blood relative. The relatives who are allowed to donate include mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, and spouse. In the case of there being no first relatives, a legal donor is arranged. 2) The patient can die if the transplant fails No. The recipient can continue or restart dialysis and try another transplant. 3) Dialysis is better than a transplantation
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