Life Expectancy for the End Stage of Renal Failure

When the patients’ renal function is less than 15%, it has been the end stage of renal failure. In this condition, most patients feel worried and panic. And they will think about the life expectancy for the end stage of renal failure. Although dialysis and kidney transplant can prolong their life to some extent, the treatment of dialysis and kidney transplant is suffering and can lead to series of complications. While, what the patients should do when the condition develops into end-stage of renal failure?
For this question, in Chinese medicine theory, we always stress on treatment based on syndrome differentiation. This is because different patients have the different condition, then the treatment effects may be different.
Therefore, patients may achieve different life expectancy even they adopt the same treatment. What we can do is to try our best to achieve the best effects for the patients. And at the same time, we need the cooperation of the patients. Indeed, for the treatment, patients are the leading role and the principal part, not the doctor.
We hope all patients can strong up their mind and cooperate with the doctors, and then they will be the winner.
We always promote the idea that “asking your mind for the health”, this is not the idealism or mentalism. We just believe patient is the leading role for the whole treatment and doctors are your assistant for the treatment. And then plus the correct and effective therapy, so you certainly will get better, even the patients are in the end stage of renal failure.
In addition to the effective treatment and correct attitude for the illness condition, reasonable diets and life style are both important for the patients to prolong their life expectancy. The following suggestions may help the patients.
A. control the intake of protein: patients without the experience of dialysis, the kidney can’t eliminate the waste generated by protein metabolism, which will aggravate the condition of chronic renal failure, therefore, we suggest that the patients should control the volume of protein; while if the patients are taking dialysis, they should pay attention to preventing protein drain during dialysis, so the patients should maintain the demand of the body under the direction of nutritionist.
B. control the volume of sodium: for salt contains a large amount of sodium, so taking in too much salt will generate too much sodium, which will aggravate the renal failure and cause the cardiorespiratory failure. However, we must not take in low sodium salt, because the low sodium salt contains a large amount of Potassium ion.
C. control the volume of potassium: the accumulation of potassium in the body may cause the irreg. heart beat, and then cause the heart failure.
D. control the volume of phosphorus: for taking too much phosphorus may cause the drain of calcium, doctors will use medicine to assist the regulation of phosphorus in the body, preventing the occurring of osteoporosis.
E. the volume of water: if the patients have taken too much water and the kidney can’t eliminate the water out, it will lead to the edema and cardiopulmonary collapse, therefore the control of water is rather important. And doctors usually will determine the volume of water according to the volume of urinate and water eliminated during the dialysis, it usually is the urinate volume of the previous day adding 500-750cc.
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