My area health group kidney doctors have started to write to GPs asking them to prescribe renavit, a multivitamin pill as HD removes water soluble vitamins from the blood. Because it contains folic acid that is discontinued if you are on it, as I was.
It has been approved by NICE so should be country wide soon.
Its replacing Dialyavit, a similar multivitamin that has now widely been discontinued. Possibly as it was being shipped over from the USA.
It's not replacing it in my NHS Trust as nothing was recommended previously other than just folic acid. I had requested it because I had read the research papers on HD removing water soluble vitamins.
I also wonder if any hormones are removed preferentially at the same time leading to a temporary hormone imbalance.
Have been on Renavit since I started HD 3.5 years ago
