How long can a woman live with kidney inflammation?

The kidneys are very important organs in the human body. Once there is a problem with the kidneys, it will cause very serious consequences. There are many types of kidney disease, and nephritis is a relatively common one. After becoming ill, patients will experience symptoms such as fatigue, low back pain, poor appetite, gross hematuria, edema, etc., which makes many female patients worry about their lifespan. So, how long can a woman live with kidney inflammation? Let’s take a look below.

How long can a woman live with kidney inflammation? Kidney inflammation commonly refers to nephritis. How long can a patient with nephritis live is different. It is related to factors such as the severity of the patient's nephritis, the patient's age, and the complications caused by nephritis. If the patient's condition is serious, it is mainly seen in two situations. One is that nephritis causes a large amount of urine protein, leading to severe hypoproteinemia, which may cause complications such as infection and thromboembolism, putting the patient's life in danger.

The second serious situation refers to nephritis causing renal failure and increased blood creatinine. Both of these conditions may shorten the patient's lifespan or even cause sudden death. If these problems were not present, such patients might survive for a long time, especially those with only mild urine protein and occult blood, whose life expectancy would not be much different from that of ordinary people.

Nephritis treatment

The principles of treatment include removal of the predisposing factors, general treatment, treatment targeting the cause and pathogenesis, treatment of comorbidities and complications, and renal replacement therapy.

1. General treatment

This includes avoiding fatigue, eliminating triggers such as infection, avoiding contact with nephrotoxic drugs or poisons, adopting a healthy lifestyle (such as quitting smoking, exercising moderately, and controlling emotions), and a reasonable diet. During the acute phase, you should rest in bed and gradually increase your activity after the clinical symptoms improve. A low-salt diet (less than 3g per day) should be given during the acute phase. People with normal renal function do not need to limit protein intake, but in cases of azotemia, protein intake should be limited, and high-quality animal protein should be the main source. People with oliguria should limit their fluid intake.

2. Treatment targeting the cause and pathogenesis

Treatment targeting the immune pathogenesis often includes glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants. Blood purification treatments such as plasma exchange and immunoadsorption can effectively remove autoantibodies and antigen-antibody complexes from the body. Treatment targeting non-immune pathogenesis, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, hyperuricemia, obesity, proteinuria, intrarenal hypercoagulable state, renin-angiotensin system activation, and oxidative stress. Renin-angiotensin system blockers, such as ACEI/ARB, are one of the most important therapeutic measures to slow the progression of kidney disease.

3. Treatment of comorbidities and complications

Patients with kidney disease often have multiple comorbidities, such as metabolic abnormalities, hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure and cirrhosis, which may aggravate the progression of kidney disease and should be actively treated.

Complications of kidney disease may involve various systems, such as infection, abnormal coagulation function, renal hypertension, renal anemia, renal osteodystrophy, water, electrolyte and acid-base imbalance, acute left heart failure, pulmonary edema and uremic encephalopathy, and should be treated actively.