Will Kidney Failure Affect the Sexual Function

2014-06-05 03:48

Will kidney failure affect the sexual function? I believe this will be a common question for all the kidney disease patients who have already get married. In this article, we will help you get further understanding about this question. And we hope this will be help for all the kidney failure patients.

As we know, kidney failure is a kind of kidney disease with the kidney function gradually reduced, and people with kidney failure will suffer from some severe symptoms and complications, which will affect the normal life of patients. In fact the kidney failure will affect the sexual function.

1. Abnormal of hormones in blood

Kidney failure means the change of male hormone levels. Through the research, we know that the kidney failure will cause the testicular atrophy, and it can also cause the decrease of male sex hormone levels in blood, wich will cause the increase of gonadotrophin levels. And we also found that the prolactin levels are also increased in blood. All these will affect the sexual function for male kidney failure patients.

2. Nerve system disorder

Kidney failure or dialysis can affect the function of nerve system, which will cause the nerve system disorder, such as uremic neuropathy,uremic encephalopathy, etc, all these will cause depression in kidney failure, which can also affect the sexual function for patients.

3. Symptoms and complications

For kidney failure patients, they often have some severe symptoms and complications, such as anemia, calcium metabolic abnormalities, electrolyte imbalance, etc, all these can also affect the sexual function for male kidney failure patients.

From above, we can know that the kidney failure can affect the sexual function in male, which will affect their normal life. So patients need to have effective treatment to improve their kidney function and relieve their symptoms, which can help improve the sexual function. If you still have some questions, you can contact with our experts online, they will help you freely.

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