Treatment Options
The main treatments for kidney disease are a
proper diet and medications,
dialysis,
transplantation and
conservative care.
In the early stages of kidney disease, a proper diet and medications
may help to maintain the critical balances in the body that your
kidneys would normally control. However, when kidney function drops
below about 10-15% of normal (an eGFR of about 10-15 ml/min), diet and
medications are no longer enough. If you have no further treatment at
this stage, short-term and long-term complications develop, and death
eventually occurs. To keep you alive, you will need dialysis or a
kidney transplant, combined with medications and a healthy diet.