Can I Avoid Dialysis with Stage 5 Kidney Failure

A person with stage 5 kidney failure has serious kidney damage with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) below 15ml/min. Due to limited treatment modalities, dialysis is still the first-line treatment for stage 5 kidney failure. Can I avoid dialysis with stage 5 kidney failure?

Stage 5 kidney failure

Kidneys are a pair of vital organs in body.The most important function is to filter out wastes and excessive fluid from body. Besides the filtering function, the kidneys also can produce certain hormones, regulate blood pressure etc.

However,in stage 5 Kidney Failure,the kidneys are damaged significantly.As the kidneys fail to perform functions properly, a host of complications and symptoms will occurs.The patients with stage 5 kidney failure usually experience skin itching, poor appetite, nausea and vomiting, heart failure etc.

Dialysis only can filter wastes and excess fluid from the body, but have no other functions of the native kidneys.As kidney only takes over about 15% of what the native kidneys are doing, a myriad of complications will occurs such as swelling, headache, vomiting, headache etc.Also,the average life expectancy of dialysis patients is only between 5~6 years.

Can I avoid dialysis with stage 5 kidney failure?

Whether patients with stage 5 kidney failure can avoid dialysis is up to the patients’ specific condition. You can chat with our online doctor to get to know if you can avoid dialysis.

To avoid dialysis in stage 5 kidney failure, the primary goal of treatment is to restore the impaired kidney structure and enhance renal function. If the native kidneys can work more efficiently, dialysis will become unnecessary.

Micro-Chinese Medicines Osmotherapy can stimulate the self-regeneration of the impaired kidney tissues to enhance renal function dramatically. Therefore, the patients will not need dialysis.