How Long Can I Live with IgA Nephropathy

Many patients with IgA nephropathy are urgently want to know that how long they can live. In fact, the life expectancy of IgA nephropathy patients can be affected by many factors. According to the different conditions, different living habits, different treatment and different diet, etc., IgA nephropathy patients can live for a few months to a range for decades. So, how can we reduce the life of patients with IgA nephropathy.
Effective treatment, timely and effective treatment of kidney disease.
IgA nephropathy is a kind of autoimmune diseases, IgA treatment should start from immune. IgA immune complex deposition in the kidney, causing an inflammatory reaction, causing kidney damage. So many drug treatment of IgA nephropathy are used to prevent the inflammatory response. These drugs can quickly suppressed the inflammatory response in the short term to achieve the effect of the control of the disease. But for IgA nephropathy, only it is not enough to control the inflammatory response, we also need to clear the deposition of immune complexes in the kidney.
Immunotherapy is a new treatment of nephrotic disease, especially the treatment of autoimmune kidney disease treatment. And conventional kidney treatment, immunotherapy in the treatment of IgA than just control the inflammatory response, this therapy more attention to clear immune complexes in the kidney and blood.
In addition, IgA nephropathy is a chronic kidney disease early is not easy to be found, so many patients were diagnosed as IgA nephropathy, the disease has been developed to a very serious stage. Late relative to the early nephropathy, kidney disease more difficult to control the so treated early is a prerequisite for effectively extend the life of patients with IgA nephropathy.
The reasonable diet helps to help control and delay the development of IgA nephropathy
Under normal circumstances, IgA nephropathy patients need to comply with the low-salt diet, low quality protein diet, low potassium diet, low phosphorus diet and high vitamin calcium diet. This is a general diet principles for patients with IgA nephropathy. Some patients with IgA nephropathy hypokalemic phenomenon, multi diet high potassium foods in the daily diet should be noted, for example, bananas. The reasonable diet helps control the IgA nephropathy illness, delaying patients' lives.
Good habits
Many patients with IgA nephropathy should avoid developing unhealthy habits such as smoking alcoholics. These bad habits can accelerate IgA nephropathy to renal failure risk factors. Therefore, for patients with these bad habits, kicking smoking and drinking is helpful for prolonging their life. In addition, in order to prevent infections such as colds and other nephropathy aggravating factors, doing physical exercises will be helpful.
Life expectancy of IgA Nephropathy patients can be affected by many factors and as long as we avoid these bad factors, we are more likely to live a longer time.