How Bad Are Only 40% of Your Kidneys Working

"Unintentionally, I found only 40% of kidneys are working through a physical examination. In fact, now I feel quite normal and healthy and no discomfort presents in my body. I do not know whether it is serious or not. And I do not know what I should do to improve kidney function."

Is it bad for people having 40% of kidneys working?

In order to keep health, every organ or tissue has a certain compensatory. Kidneys also have a strong compensatory and only 50% of kidney tissues can support the body to discharge toxic substances, excess water and salt. When people have 40% of kidneys, they also have no obvious symptoms. But once they have discomfort, it indicates that they are stepping to a serious stage of kidney disease.

What are the risks of 40% of kidneys working?

In fact, 40% is not great and kidney function would be greatly lowered down by many factors, such as the causes of kidney disease, life style or diet. If their kidney function continues to reduce, they need to take dialysis to sustain life.
For more and more kidney tissues are dead, many toxic substances would stay in the body and lead to many complications, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and others that would threaten people’s lives.

How to reverse this situation?

In traditional treatment, only drugs or medicines are adopted. It is known that the dead cells cannot be alive again by using drugs and the medicine only can return damaged ones to normal. So it is the best effect that patients live with this kidney function.


The new therapy for kidney disease—Immunotherapy can provide a better method to improve kidney function. It is a comprehensive treatment, so people’s kidney disease can be treated with a good therapeutic schedule. Immunotherapy in the immunotherapy can provide new healthy cell for kidney, so patients are hopeful to improve kidney function greatly.