A closer look
Hooking yourself up to a filtration machine in your bedroom requires military-grade hygiene, because a tiny plastic tube is a highway for Staphylococcus. Patients doing at-home abdominal dialysis smear Mupirocin ointment around their catheter exit site daily to violently eradicate skin bacteria. This simple pharmaceutical blockade is the only thing preventing a fatal cavity infection while they filter their blood on the couch.






