In todays' environment it is easy to forget the haemodialysis reactions of old. Todays’ reactions appear rarely and if they do occur, seem to be milder. Technological advances in machines, dialysers, sterilisation methods, water treatment and anticoagulation therapies has occurred in the haemodialysis field seeming to make the dialysis process less problematic, in the case of reactions.

While this appears to be true for a majority of the dialysis population there are still those patients whose dialysis experience is fraught with danger and even death. This presentation is one such mans journey through haemodialysis. The presentation will talk the listener through the patients multiple reactions, the resulting dialysis regime changes, possible causative agents and this patients' continued survival.