What is the Serum Creatinine Level that Requires Dialysis for Patients with Kidney Disease

High serum creatinine is the typical symptom of kidney disease patients. What's more, high serum creatinine can do harm to human body including the kidneys in return. Recently, some patients asked me what is the serum creatinine levels that requires dialysis. I think this is the question in the mind of many patients with kidney disease.

In fact, there is no need to do dialysis as soon as the serum creatinine just begins to increase. Then what is the serum creatinine level that requires dialysis? It varies from one country to another. In western countries, when the patient’s creatinine is more than 450 umol/L, his or her doctor will suggest them to do dialysis. Sometimes it depends on the illness condition. When some patients have the symptoms of nausea, vomit, weakness and lassitude, they are also suggested to do dialysis.

Dialysis can be helpful for people with serious kidney disease. The core function of dialysis is to lower the serum creatinine level, to clear up the extra toxins and excess water in blood, and adjust the electrolyte disorder. In one word, it is used to replace the original renal function. That's why we call dialysis artificial kidney. In the case of serious kidney disease, dialysis work effectively and quickly and can make patients survive life-threatening disease.

But once patients begin to be on dialysis, they will live on it and can not be free of dialysis, for dialysis can not treat the kidney disease at all. It just lowers the serum creatinine and almost does nothing to the damaged renal cells which is the cause of high serum creatinine. As the illness condition becomes more serious, the number of nephrons will decrease. As a result, it is difficult to treat the kidney disease. At the same time, it will impose a heavy economic burden on patients.

Long time dialysis will lead to a series of complications like cardiovascular disease, infection and anemia etc., which also make the treatment more difficult.

As the main cause of high serum creatinine is the damaged renal cells, we have to restore the damaged renal cells if we want to reduce the serum creatinine effectively.

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