How Long Does A Kidney Failure Patient Live Without Dialysis

How long can a kidney failure patient live without dialysis? It is is hard to say exactly how long does a person live without dialysis or with dialysis. Well, in the following we will tell you why it is difficult to answer this question.

Once patients are diagnosed with kidney failure and their illness condition has been very severe, they may be offered to do dialysis and they think dialysis is the only hope for survival. In this case, they may figure out once they cannot accept dialysis, how long they will live? Will they die at once? In fact, they do not know that:

Dialysis is an imperfect treatment for kidney disease because it does not repair renal intrinsic cells. Dialysis is just a renal replacement and replaces kidneys to filter wastes and purify blood. Dialysis does can help you live longer and the average life span of patients is approximately 5 years. This value changes for individuals depending on different environment and different healthy conditions. Anemia, high blood pressure, diabetes and many other complications all will aggravate kidney disease and contribute to shortening your life span. Therefore, you need not be bothered by the question of how long you will live without dialysis, because there are also many other healthy problems affecting your life span just as we mentioned above. In this light, you can expand your life expectancy by controlling your other healthy problems.

1. Control your high blood pressure, diabetes and other largest risks

You know high blood pressure, diabetes and proteinuria are all high risks to kidney disease, so you should control these high risks timely and effectively which may make you live longer. A healthy diet and some medications are helpful to control these complications, such as ACEI and ARBs(for high blood pressure and proteinuria).

2. Ingest vitamin C from foods

The research has revealed that vitamin C has a lot of benefits of improving kidney function and lowering creatinine level. In this case, in your daily life you can eat some fruits and vegetables which contain more vitamin C, like cranberry, kiwi fruit and some vegetables. Fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C contribute to delaying the progression of your illness conditions and improve your life expectance.

3. Repair your kidney function

The root of your conditions is something wrong with your kidney function, so the most important thing you should do is to improve and repair your kidney function. We recommend you take some Chinese herbal medicine, which can not only purify blood, just as dialysis does but also enhance your self-curative ability, make those impaired but not necrotic cells alive again. So long as part of your kidney cells can work, your kidney function will be improved greatly. When your kidney function is improved to more than 15%, you may avoid dialysis and live longer.

To summary, dialysis cannot determine how long you will live,and sometimes without dialysis, you still can live longer if you control your conditions well. Thus, do not be bothered by the question -how long will you live without dialysis.