Life Expectancy for Dialysis Patients

What is the life expectancy for dialysis patients? We are a specialized kidney disease hospital named Beijing Tongshantang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. If you are a kidney disease patient, no matter whether you have been on dialysis treatment or not, the following content can be helpful.

What is the life expectancy for dialysis patients?

Some materials have shown that the average life expectancy for dialysis patients is 4.25 years. Only 10% of dialysis patients can live for 10 years. The life expectancy for dialysis patients can be affected by many factors like patients’ age, whether there are some obvious complications including lung problems and heart problems and so on. So we hope kidney disease patients can ignore those numbers, remember that your condition is unique.

Are you on dialysis now?

It is a fact that no one kidney disease patient wants to experience dialysis or kidney transplant. But in the clinic, most cases are only treated with healthy diet and western medications, the repair to kidney damage is ignored. With time going, more kidney function will be lost. So, if you have not been on dialysis, go and find an effective treatment which can help repair kidney damage and recover renal function.

If you have been on dialysis treatment, how long? And whether you can still produce urine? If there still has some certain amount of urine, it can be a piece of good news, because it means there still has blood flows to kidneys. In that case, the active materials of medicines can be effectively taken to kidneys and then play the special functions to gradually improve kidney function. After the treatment, dialysis times can be reduced, and it can even be stopped with the increase in GFR levels.

So from now on, do not care about the life expectancy for dialysis patients, go and choose the proper treatment for your condition, you have the right to live a better life. Have a question? Choose the way you like to let us know.