There are large individualized differences in how long nephrotic syndrome can live, which need to be analyzed in relation to the specific type of pathology. Microscopic lesion type nephrotic syndrome, some patients can spontaneously remission, treatment remission rate is high, most of the impact on life expectancy is not great, but remission is easy to relapse. Early membranous nephropathy still has a high therapeutic remission rate, and although it is difficult to achieve therapeutic remission in the late stage, most of the disease progresses slowly, renal failure occurs later, and most of them have little impact on life expectancy after active treatment by Chinese and Western medicine. In the case of focal capillary glomerulonephritis and severe proliferative glomerulonephritis, the prognosis is poor, and the patients will enter chronic renal failure sooner, and may survive for more than 20 years if they can be dialyzed regularly. In case of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis type, the survival rate of 10 years can be more than 90% for those who are sensitive to hormone therapy. The treatment of nephrotic syndrome requires the application of hormones or immunosuppressants, must be standardized under the guidance of a doctor, not blindly stop or reduce the amount of drugs on their own, with traditional Chinese medicine can reduce the toxicity and increase the effect.