Diabetics with GFR 17.49: How Long Before Dialysis

For diabetics with GFR 17.49, how long before dialysis? If you have the similar condition, go on reading to learn more information.

In general, when GFR is less than 15, dialysis is suggested. But for diabetics, they usually start dialysis earlier than other renal patients, because diabetes can cause a series of severe complications, which may threaten life. Therefore, you had better take treatment as early as possible to improve your GFR.

Treatment for diabetics with GFR 17.49

First of all, you should have a good control of your blood sugar level to prevent it causing further damage to your kidneys.

Second, you should set up a good blood environment for kidneys to heal themselves. Because of the declined GFR, a lot of waste products can not be filtered out of body so that they will build up in blood. If you do not clear them away from blood timely, they will cause damage to your kidneys or even other body systems, and they can also counteract the effects of medications to affect your recovery. In our hospital, Toxin-Removing Treatment is often used in this case. It takes advantage of various Chinese medicine therapies such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Medicated Bath, Foot Bath, Enema Therapy, Steam Therapy and so on to remove massive waste products from body to make internal environment clean. It can also dilate blood vessels and remove stasis to improve blood circulation and increase blood flow into damaged kidneys to supply them with enough essential elements to speed up kidney recovery. After a short period of treatment, symptoms such as swelling, proteinuria, high blood pressure, headache, nausea, vomiting, skin itching, back pain and so on will get relieved or disappear. After a long period of treatment, your kidney function will improve and your GFR will increase. As a result, you can delay dialysis.

How long before dialysis for diabetics with GFR 17.49? It depends on how well you control your disease. If you are not satisfied with your current treatment effect, you can try Chinese medicine.

If you want to get more treatment or diet suggestions for kidney problem,you can feel to contact me by E-mail :chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com,or  WhatsApp / Viber / Phone Number: 008615132830921

What Foods Should Be Given for Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy

Diet can be regarded as the most basic treatment for protecting diabetic kidney disease patients from the further damage. However, for most patients, they may have no idea what food they can eat. It’s OK. After reading the passage, you will master friendly-kidney diet plan.

Generally speaking, according to the friendly-kidney dietary principles, you will get a good diet plan for yourself.

1. Control high blood sugar--foods that can lower high sugar level.

For Diabetic Nephropathy, they should first control their high blood sugar firmly, because uncontrolled blood glucose level will aggravate kidney damage. From the point, they are advise to take some foods which can lower high the high blood sugar, such as oatmeal, broccoli, spinach, green beans, strawberries, salmon, lean meats, sparking water and cinnamon. Besides, diabetic patients should avoid high sugar foods. All these will be helpful to control their high blood sugar.

2. Reduce kidneys’ burden--foods that can produce few wastes.

First of all, patients should limit protein intake, because too much protein intake will increase the kidney burden and aggravate the kidney damage. Second, patients should also limit the salt intake, because too much salt intake will aggravate hypertension and swelling. Third, they also need to take proper potassium, phosphorus, calcium and other microelements depending on their illness condition.

3. Protect residual renal function-foods that can help repair renal damage

Some herbal tea can help lay a solid foundation for repairing kidney damage like dandelion root tea, nettle leaf tea, corn silk tea, and so on. These teas are the natural diuretic which can remove extra wastes from the body effectively.

All these general dietary principles help to remit the symptoms they have and reduce the kidney damage to protect the residual kidney function. Sincerely hope you can live a healthy life with these suggestions.

If you want to get more treatment or diet suggestions for kidney problem,you can feel to contact me by E-mail :chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com,or  WhatsApp / Viber / Phone Number: 008615132830921