Does End Stage Kidney Disease Cause Infertility

Some people with end stage kidney disease (ESRD) are at childbearing age, so “does end stage kidney disease cause infertility” become one of their biggest concern. According to this question, we give the following explanation.

End stage kidney disease

Our kidneys are vital organs in our body that are responsible for not only purifying blood but also keeping electrolyte balance and secreting some hormone. If more than 50% of kidney function is damaged, our kidneys can’t do their job optimally, resulting in many symptoms and complications. In ESRD, nearly all of kidney functioning tissues are damaged. Low kidney function is more likely to cause damage to many organs or symptoms.

How does ESRD cause infertility?

Infertility is just one complication of severe kidney damage, and it is due to both physical and emotional conditions. First of all, hormonal aberration is associated closely with end stage renal disease. Then, the imbalance in luteinizing hormone (LH) may occur.

With the progression of patients’ illness condition, women’s menstrual period often become irregular, and pregnancy becomes difficult when kidney function declines to 20% or less. What’s more, if female patients begin dialysis, their periods are often still regular or even stop completely. As a result, infertility occurs easily. Men with ESRD may also suffer from this problem, because they develop abnormal sperm.

Besides physical condition, emotional condition may also affect patients’ sexual ability. People with advanced kidney disease may have low sex drive, worry, stress and fear for sexual life, thus affecting patients’ fertility.

How to deal with infertility due to ESRD?

From the above analysis, we can know low kidney function is the root cause of infertility and other complications. Only if the kidney function is improved successfully can ESRD patients get pregnant easily.

If you are looking for an effective treatment, Blood Pollution Therapy may be your case. Through normalizing blood circulation and increasing the damaged kidney cells’ self-curative ability, part of kidney function can recover to normal again. You are interested about this therapy? Welcome to leave a message or send email to kidneycares@hotmail.com, so we can give you suggestions in 24 hours.