What To Do When Only 1/3 Kidney Function Left

Recently, someone tole me online that only 1/3 her kidney function was left and she does not know what to do. Kidney disease is a silent killer and shorten patient’s life span without causing them awareness, so many people are told their kidney function has been impaired seriously once they realize there is something wrong with their kidney. Having a timely and effective management about kidney condition is a key point; however, the problem is that many kidney disease patients do not know what to do with impaired kidney function.

For people who has only 1/3 his kidney function, his kidneys have been damaged badly and under such a condition, he needs to:

1. Change diet to avoid causing heavy kidney burden

Improper diet cause extra kidney burden and worsen kidney function, which may push patients into kidney failure early. In this light, it is necessary for kidney disease patients to change their diet. Usually, the exact diet depends on exact illness condition. As kidney disease patients always have different illness condition, it is hard to find a food lists that are suitable for all the kidney disease patients. But generally, kidney disease patients need to follow low-protein diet, low-salt diet, low-potassium level and low-phosphorous deit.

2. Bring all the symptoms under control

With the decrease of kidney function, patients will experience more and more abnormal clinical manifestations like high blood pressure, proteinuria, hematuria and anemia and so on. Although these abnormal clinical indexes result from low kidney function, they in turn accelerate kidney disease. Having a tight control about these symptoms will help to slow down the progression of illness condition.

3. Repair kidney damages to improve kidney function

For an individual with 1/3 kidney function, there are healthy, injured and dead kidney intrinsic cells in the body. Dead kidney cells can not be revived, but for these injured kidney cells, they have self-repairing ability and by increasing their ability, they can recover. In Clinic, Chinese medicines show special effects in repairing injured kidney cells. These medicines have function to extend blood vessels, block inflammation, prevent coagulation and degrade extracellular matrix. With these benefits, injured kidney cells can be activated to work again. As long as much more kidney cells perform function, kidney condition gets improved greatly.