What to Expect with Only 5% Kidney Function
2014-02-13 01:38
Question: My mum is in end stage renal failure and now at home, she is well one day and awful the next day. I am distressing with her illness condition, and she is lethargy but not eating. I am afraid with all these conditions, what can I expect for her with only 5% kidney function?
Answer: I am sorry to hear the illness condition of your mum, and we are professional kidney disease hospital, we will do our best to help her.
As we know, kidney failure is a common kidney disease with the kidney function gradually reduced. Your mother has been in end stage kidney failure and her kidney function has been reduced into 5%, and her illness condition is serious. In this condition, her kidneys have been damaged very severely, and she may suffer from some serious symptoms and complications.
you said your mother is lethargy and not eating anything, this means the lots of wastes and toxins have been building up in blood, which will cause her lethargy and loss of appetite. Then she need to start dialysis right now, or her illness condition will be more and more serious and even life threatening.
Dialysis is a common treatment which can substitute the station of kidneys and help filter the toxins and wastes in blood, which can help purify the blood and make patient much better. When your mother start dialysis, she need to have regular dialysis about 2-3 times a week depending on her illness condition. However, dialysis can help her relieve her severe symptoms and help improve her life quality, but patients need to rely on dialysis until the end of life. In order to change this condition, she can have Chinese herbal medicines which can help repair the damaged kidney tissues and improve the kidney function. The common Chinese herbal medicine can be used in medicated bath, foot bath and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, all these can help patients to repair their damaged kidney tissues and improve the kidney function, which can help reduce the times of dialysis in a week or even get rid of dialysis.
I hope my answer will be helpful for your mother, if you still have some questions, you can send e-mail to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.
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