What Happens Next if Kidneys Are Shrinking

2018-12-08 03:37

Question: My husband’s kidneys are shrinking every 3 months, what happens next? It has been getting smaller for 3 years now.

Answer: A normal adult male kidney will be at least 11 cm long. What is the size of your husband’s kidneys? With the shrinkage of kidneys, they can not play their role fully.

Functions of kidney

-filtering waste products from food, medications, and toxic substances.

-regulating and filtering minerals from blood.

-maintaining overall fluid balance

-creating hormones that help produce red blood cells, promote bone health, and regulate blood pressure.

When kidneys shrink, the above functions will be affected greatly so as to cause a variety of symptoms.

- swelling

- anemia

- high blood pressure

-bone disease

- proteinuria

-electrolyte disorder

-others

If his kidney shrinkage can not be solved timely, it may cause kidney failure.

When kidneys shrink a lot, they will become as hard as stone so that all functions will be lost. And then you have to live on dialysis or kidney transplant to maintain life. Here it is suggested to have a systemic treatment to halt the progression. In kidney disease hospital China, we usually use Toxin-Removing Treatment . It can dilate blood vessels and remove stasis to improve blood circulation and increase blood flow into kidneys so as to improve renal ischemia and anoxia. It can also provide the damaged kidneys with enough essential elements to speed up kidney recovery. Moreover, it can eliminate waste products and extra fluid from body to make internal environment good for kidney self-healing and other medication application.

After about one week’s treatment, you will see floccules in urine, which are those wastes being passed out.

After about half month’s treatment, swelling, proteinuria, high blood pressure and so on will get relieved greatly.

After about one month’s treatment, his condition will get controlled, and renal function will get improved.

What happens next if kidneys are shrinking? Eventually kidney failure will occur. If you do not want your disease to get worse, you should take treatment as early as possible.

Note: the above material is intended for informational purposes only. For specific treatment suggestions, please consult a physician.