How Long Can People Live with Stage 4 Kidney Failure

2014-03-06 11:31

How long can people live with stage 4 kidney failure? This is a most concerned question for stage 4 kidney failure patients. As we know, kidney failure is a kind of kidney disease with the kidney function gradually reduced, and stage 4 kidney failure means the kidneys have been damaged severely.

Stage 4 kidney failure is a special stage, if people don’t have effective treatment, they may quickly get into stage 5 kidney failure or completely lost kidney function. However, if they receive certain treatment, they may recover to stage 3 kidney failure or much better. So no one can tell the exact time that stage 4 kidney failure patients can live, because it all depending on their illness condition, the treatment they received and their daily diet.

If stage 4 kidney failure patients don’t have effective treatment, they may live a poor prognosis.

If stage 4 kidney failure patients have a certain treatment on their kidney disease, they may live a better prognosis.

If stage 4 kidney failure patients don’t pay attention to their daily diet, they may have a bad prognosis.

If stage 4 kidney failure patients keep a kidney-friendly diet, they will have a good prognosis.

Here are some suggestions for stage 4 kidney failure patients to prolong their life expectancy.

- Keep a kidney-friendly diet

As we know, diet plays an important role in the life of kidney disease patients, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. So all the kidney disease patients need to keep a kidney-friendly diet, which can slow down the progression of kidney failure.

Stage 4 kidney failure patients need to follow the common dietary principles as below:

 - Keep a low protein diet

 - Limit the fluid intake

 - Keep a low salt diet

 - Supply enough nutrition

 - Control the symptoms

Stage 4 kidney failure patients also need to control their symptoms, which can help prevent the further damage to kidneys. For stage 4 kidney failure patients, they often have the symptoms of high blood pressure, proteinuria, blood urine, swelling, etc, so they should have some certain treatments to control their symptoms.

- Remedy kidney disease

The most important thing for stage 4 kidney failure patients is to remedy their kidney disease, which can help repair the kidney damage and improve the kidney function.

Here we recommend stage 4 kidney failure patients to have Chinese Herbal Medicine to remedy their kidney disease. Chinese herbal medicines have the function of repairing the damaged kidney tissues and gradually improving the kidney function.

Therefore, stage 4 kidney failure patients need to follow these suggestions both on diet and medical treatments, all these can help patients to prolong their life expectancy and make a good prognosis fo them. If you still have some questions, you can contact with our experts online, they will answer you as soon as possible.

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