How Long Can I Live with Diabetic Nephropathy

For diabetes patients, once they are diagnosed with kidney disease, they wonder how long they can live with diabetic nephropathy?

Kidneys in our body work as blood cleaners and they can help excrete waste products out of the blood. In this disease, long-term high blood sugar level can cause decline of kidney function and lead to many complications. Without effective control, it will develop into kidney failure eventually. If this happens, their life span will be affected.

Life expectancy for patients with Diabetic Nephropathy

According to the data, about 75% sufferers will develop into renal failure in 15 years. In this case, they have to resort to dialysis or a kidney transplant. Then, is there any effective treatments?

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Dialysis can help patients prolong life by removing the harmful things. Due to dialysis complications such as vomiting, muscle cramp, itching skin and so on, more and more patients hope there is an alternative treatment to dialysis.

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Kidney transplant is not a good therapy options for diabetic patients because it is hard for their wounds to heal. And the trauma makes patients be infected easily. That is to say, diabetic patients have a high risk to a operation.

How to prolong the life span?

Well control of blood pressure and blood sugar These two indexes are leading factors of DN, so it is necessary to bring them under control. Let’s take high blood pressure for example, medications like ACE Inhibitors, ARBs can be beneficial. For more info, you can click How to Treat High Blood Pressure in Diabetic Nephropathy.

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Alleviate symptoms and restore kidney function The hot compress therapy recommended at our Huaxia Kidney Disease Hospital is a good choice. By extending blood vessels, promoting blood circulation, anti-coagulation and providing nutrients for the impaired kidneys, the treatment goal can be achieved eventually. Once kidney function is restored, patients can live longer.


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