What Creatinine Level Requires Dialysis

For patients with kidney problem, dialysis maybe not a strange word, they were told about the creatinine level, blood urea nitrogen, and some other important indicators related to kidney problem, what's more, they were told that without control or the end stage of this disease is dialysis or kidney transplant, as for kidney transplant has so many restricted conditions, dialysis them become the common way for patient with serious kidney diseases. So what kind of kidney patients will need dialysis? What creatinine level requires dialysis?

Creatinine level always be used as the major data for determination of renal function. But we need to know that whether dialysis is suitable is not only depends on creatinine level, it depends on the general situation of patients, how does patient feel, does patient have edema? Feel sick? Weakness or something else. Some patients may take dialysis when their creatinine is 300 but some may not do that even if creatinine level is 500 or much higher level. So creatinine is not the single standard for dialysis. Patients also need to realize what exactly dialysis is, generally dialysis can be divided into two types: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Both of them have no effect on treating kidney diseases, so strictly speaking, dialysis can not be regards as a "treatment". Dialysis machine is called artificial kidney, it can replace the renal function to a certain extent. Dialysis can discharge the wastes and toxin out of body and decrease creatinine level obviously in a short time, then patient will feel better, the feeling of nausea, vomiting or other discomforts will disappear. However, all of them are temporary. That's why patients need to take dialysis two or three times a week.

Now in china, dialysis or kidney transplant is no more the only way for patients with high creatinine, people start to realize that some traditional Chinese medicine can do something that can not reach by western methods, and some treatment there are really find a bright way for some patients still have hope. Refer to this article for more information: Alternative Treatment to Dialysis for High Creatinine Level