Life Expectancy of Patients on Dialysis

How long can I live once beginning dialysis? All patients with Uremia are concerned with this question so much. In fact, there is no a specific answer to this question. If the patients with Uremia can guarantee adequate dialysis, it can decline the incidence of complications. In normal conditions, the patients can live longer than 10 years. However, in consideration of different patients’ physique, the severity of their diseases and other complications, the life expectancy also has differences. In some cases, some patients may die within in five years and even a short time for serious complication after their dialysis.

Although dialysis has plays an important role in prolonging the life expectancy of patients with Uremia. But it only can clear up the accumulated uremic toxins in their body, but can not treat the disease from its pathogenesis at all.

Therefore, the patients’ renal function will decline gradually during the dialysis process. With the decline in renal function, the frequency of dialysis will also increase. Dialysis just maintains the patients’ life temporarily, but it can not improve their renal function in a long run. After the patients lose their renal function totally, they have to receive kidney transplant.


Therefore, dialysis just can be considered as an assistant therapy in treating Uremia, which can provide a favorable internal environment. On that base, the patients should protect their remained renal function do their best and then improve their original renal function gradually. If the patients can receive proper treatments, they are very likely to decline dialysis frequency and even get rid of it. If so, the patients will prolong their life expectancy greatly.