What Creatinine Level Requires Dialysis

2015-02-01 03:48

Kidney dialysis is a common therapy in western medicine. Well, what creatinine level requires dialysis? Some patients need to take dialysis while others are not. Whether you need dialysis or not depends on your physical condition and complications.

Dialysis is the most common therapy in the treatment of kidney failure. Generally speaking, fluid in the body is discharged out of the body through semipermeable membrane. It is often used for acute or chronic kidney failure, drug or other toxins accumulation in the body.

In normal case, if you high creatinine level and serious complications, dialysis will be recommended. High creatinine level is not the only indicator of dialysis. Dialysis can reduce high creatinine level quickly but it is not a long term solution. Long term of dialysis will make the original kidneys shrink and dead completely. Eventually patients have no choice but to wait for kidney transplant. They are even likely to miss the time of kidney transplant.

The elevated creatinine level is that various factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and infection lead to kidney ischemia and hypoxia. Kidney intrinsic cells are also damaged, normal kidney nephrons with filtering function will be replaced by fibrosis tissues. In this condition, kidneys will loss its ability to discharge toxins, and then high creatinine will rise.

Therefore, the key point is to improve kidney ischemia and hypoxia, repair injured kidney intrinsic cells and activate residual kidney function. High creatinine level will be lowered radically and dialysis can be reduced or even eliminated.

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