A person with 5% renal function is absolutely in the End Stage Renal Disease (also known as Kidney Failure). In the stage, most patients will concern more about how long they can still live. Now, let’s follow the passage and learn more related information.

To be frank, living with so less renal function, patients’ lives have been threatened. However, the length of kidney disease patients’ lives also can be affected by many factors, including age, symptoms, complications, degree of kidney damage, treatments, medications, lifestyles, daily diet and so on. Among them, treatment plays an important role in prolong patients’ life time. If you want to get an individualized treatment suggestion, you can email to us at renal-disease@hotmail.com or leave a message below directly.

Then, what treatments can help prolong renal failure patients’ life?

Dialysis

For many people with kidney failure, dialysis helps them live longer and improves their quality of life to some extent. According to statistics, the sufficient dialysis can provide extra 10-year life time at least for kidney failure patients. Because dialysis can help discharge toxins and ease complications. However due to different illness conditions and different physical status as well as side effects of dialysis, patients’ life also can be affected.

Kidney Transplant

Kidney transplant is regarded as the last life-saving straw by stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients. It can help patients get rid of dialysis and improve the quality of life to some extent. Compared with dialysis, kidney transplant makes patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease live longer. However, kidney transplant has its own disadvantages: it may take years to wait for a donor; there has a high relapse rate after receiving kidney transplant, such as PKD, FSGS cases. Many stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients begin to look for other treatments during the wait.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

If kidney function 5% still can be enhanced, then kidney transplant is likely to be avoided. However there are no western medicines can do this. Repairing kidney damage and enhancing kidney function are the purposes of Chinese herbal medicines used in China. We have to say that Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherap make the good prognosis. The treatment will be better if patients still have some certain urine, and more urine patients can produce, better the treatment effect will be.