Is Patient with Creatinine 3.2 Candidate for Dialysis

2014-05-19 06:35

The range of normal creatinine level for an adult is about 0.5 to 1.2 mg/dL. When your kidneys fail to work, creatinine level increases. Dialysis can take over part of your kidney function to filter wastes and excess fluid from your blood. Is patient with creatinine 3.2 candidate for dialysis?

What creatinine level is for dialysis? Under normal circumstance, when your creatinine level reaches 5, dialysis is recommended. But in fact when to do dialysis is usually not determined by one’s creatinine level. It is more determined by your creatinine clearance. If your clearance is at 10 ml/min or less you need dialysis.

Though dialysis can quickly bring your creatinine level down, it requires you to do dialysis regularly. Once you stop dialysis or skip dialysis, your high creatinine level will come back and become even much higher. Besides, long-term dialysis can make your kidney function decline gradually. With the decline of kidney function, you have to do dialysis frequently. When your kidney function loses totally, you can only do dialysis or kidney transplant.

Therefore, when your creatinine is just 3.2, there is no need to do dialysis. And what you should do is to improve your kidney function. Only in this way can you get rid of dialysis.

In kidney hospital China, there are many particular therapies, such as moxibustion, medicated bath, foot bath, and some advanced blood purification methods such as plasma exchange and immune absorption. We combine them together. According to your medical condition, we make different blood purification treatment plan. And then we will supplement essential elements to your blood. When your blood system recovers, your damaged kidneys can gradually recover. And then your creatinine level goes down.

If you have any question, you can send emails to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com. Our doctor will reply you in 24 hours.

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