Does PKD Patients with Creatinine 8.5 Need Dialysis

2014-08-24 03:44

Does PKD patients with creatinine 8.5 need dialysis? This is a common question for PKD patients when their creatinine level is higher than the normal level. In this article, we will help PKD patients to answer this question.

High creatinine level is a common symptoms for PKD patients when they have severe kidney damage, and the unwell controlled high creatinine level will worsen the progression of kidney failure. Creatinine 8.5 is much higher than the normal level 0.5-1.2 mg/dl, and in this condition patients need to have effective treatment to lower the high creatinine level 8.5.

Dialysis is a common replacement for end stage kidney failure patients when their kidneys have been damaged severely. In general, when the creatinine level is higher than 5 mg/dl, the doctor will recommend PKD patients to start dialysis. However, creatinine is not the only indicator for PKD patients to start dialysis. Because there are also some patients who don’t have dialysis when their creatinine level reaches to 9 or 10 mg/dl. So when should a PKD patient with creatinine 8.5 starting dialysis is all depending on their own illness condition.

If PKD patient has the symptoms of nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, swelling, sleepiness, skin itching, etc, then he may need to have dialysis. Because these symptoms mean that there are so many harmful substances in blood, so patients need to have dialysis to remove the toxins and wastes to relieve these symptoms.

However, if people don’t have these obvious symptoms, such as high blood pressure, heart failure, anemia,etc, and they still have urine, the dialysis can be delayed, and they can have some alternative treatment to remedy their kidney disease.

So whether PKD patients with creatinine 8.5 need to have dialysis or not is all depending on their own illness condition. In general, dialysis can cause some side effects for PKD patients, so the best way is to remedy the kidney disease as early as possible. If people can get rid of dialysis, they will have a better prognosis than the dialysis patients.

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