How Long Can You Live with End Stage Renal Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is when there is permanent damage to your kidneys. Your kidneys may still work well enough for you to live, even if they have some damage.

If your kidneys keep getting worse, CKD can lead to kidney failure (ESRD). This is when the kidneys do not work well enough for you to live. If this happens, you will need dialysis or a kidney transplant to live.

The main job of the kidneys is to clean wastes and extra fluid from your blood. If your kidneys fail, you will need dialysis or a kidney transplant to live. These are treatments to help replace the job of the kidneys.

As a patient with ESRD, you are eligible for Medicare, regardless of your age, to cover most of your dialysis expenses if you don't have other health insurance. The social worker will help you with Medicare enrollment, which you should do as soon as possible.

At this point, you have some idea about what you will have to go through as a renal disease patient. Still, you are dreading that first dialysis treatment. You have seen the big needles used in dialysis, two of which will be stuck in one of your arms.

It may be necessary, before starting dialysis treatments, that a minor operation be performed to implant a plastic graft in your arm through which hem dialysis will be done. A graft will be implanted if your veins are unsatisfactory for hem dialysis. This will necessitate that, at the same time the graft is implanted, a subclavian catheter be implanted for immediate use in dialysis treatments. The name, subclavian catheter, indicates where it is implanted: under the collarbone. This subclavian catheter will be used for two or three weeks, until the arm heals where the graft was implanted and is ready for use.

Finally the day comes when you must take your first hem dialysis treatment, using either the graft or your veins. You are still apprehensive about it, but you are determined to go through with it as best you can.

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital provides patients a new hope to deal with kidney disease, including Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Medicated Bath, Foot Bath, Hot Compress Therapy.

If you want to know more details about the natural treatments, please send email to kidneyfailuretreat@hotmail.com or leave a message below. The renal experts will reply you as soon as possible.