How Long Can I Live On Dialysis With One Kidney Working 18%

2014-03-07 11:56

Recently, we receive an e-mail from our mail box, pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. The main content is “I am on dialysis, and I have water in lungs, so I am on oxygen due to breathing problem. Can you tell me how long I can live? My one kidney is completely fail and other is working 18%, what should I do?” When we saw this mail, we are so worried to his illness condition. Because his illness condition is so serious and he is already in end stage kidney failure.

However, no one can tell the exact time that the patient can live, because there are many factors can affect his life expectancy, such as age, complications, symptoms and treatment he received. If his age is to old, his organs may also old enough to fail to work normally, and some serious unwell controlled symptoms or complications will also make a poor prognosis for patient. Besides, the treatment will also affect the life expectancy, so patient need to consider these factors into his prognosis.

However, there are also some methods to help prolong his life expectancy. For this patient, he has only one kidney working 18% and and he had serious swelling in lungs, so he need to still have regular dialysis depending on his illness condition, and this can help him relieve some symptoms such as swelling, nausea, vomiting or skin itching. Besides, he also need to have effective treatment to remedy his kidney disease and improve his kidney function.

He can take Chinese herbal medicine which has no side effects to kidney disease patients, and it can help repair the damaged kidney tissue and improve the kidney function. In this aspect, the kidney function can be improved, and the symptoms and complications caused by reduced kidney function can also be relieved.

Therefore, the fundamental way to prolong the life expectancy for kidney failure patients is to remedy the kidney disease and improve the kidney function, and patients need to find the effective treatment for their kidney failure. If you want to get more information about Chinese herbal medicine, you can contact with our experts online.

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