Understanding your body. Guiding your treatment. Improving your dialysis outcomes.
Kidney disease affects more than just the kidneys — it changes water levels in the body, muscle strength, nutrition, and overall well-being. At Renacare, we use the BCM (Body Composition Monitor) to understand your body more deeply, so your dialysis can be safer, more accurate, and more personalised.
BCM is a scientific tool that gives us a clear picture of your hydration, fat, muscle, and overall health. The test takes only a few minutes and is completely safe — a small, painless current passes through the body to calculate true water levels and body composition.
BCM measures three critical things for every dialysis patient:
Without BCM, dialysis prescriptions rely on guesswork. With BCM, your nephrologist can detect hidden fluid overload, weakness and low muscle mass, malnutrition, difficulty controlling blood pressure, swelling, dehydration, and the right dry weight — early and accurately.
Dry weight is the weight at which your body has neither too much fluid nor too little. Getting it right prevents the most common, dangerous complications of dialysis.
BCM gives the most accurate dry-weight measurement available today — far superior to guesswork or clinical estimation alone.
Wrong dry weight causes breathlessness, hypertension, hypotension during dialysis, and chronic heart strain. BCM prevents all four.
Tracking fluid before and after dialysis means safe fluid removal, less stress on the heart, and more effective treatment.
Patients whose dry weight is BCM-guided spend fewer days in hospital — fewer fluid overload admissions, fewer cardiac events.
BCM detects low muscle mass, protein loss, and frailty — especially important in elderly and diabetic kidney patients.
Fluid overload, early heart stress, and BP fluctuations are spotted before they become emergencies.
Renacare performs BCM regularly for patients to ensure safer and more personalised treatment. Our protocol:
BCM at Renacare is a routine part of safe, personalised dialysis — not a luxury.
Ask for a BCM scan at your next session — it's included in our routine dialysis care, not a paid upgrade.
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