Ketosteril Medicine for Kidney Disease

Ketosteril is a commonly prescribed medicines by nephrologists to treat kidney disease. It is more suitable for chronic renal failure patients that have GFR (glomerular filtration rate ) lower than 25ml/min. That means it is suitable for stage 4 and stage 5 CKD patients.

Ketosteril can rectify protein metabolic disorder as well as its symptoms and damages. It is often used to lower serum creatinine level and make up for low-protein diets.

Ketosteril medicine is more like a nutritional therapy and diet therapy because it is often used as supplement to low-protein diets.

High-protein diets can increase glomerular permeability and cause direct damages to renal functions. Low-protein diet is one important aspect for slowing down illness progression and protecting kidney functions by avoiding high perfusion and high filtration, reducing proteinuria and delaying glomerular sclerosis.

However long term single low-protein diets can cause malnutrition which can be avoided by taking ketosteril. Ketosteril can provide amino acids, but at the same time does not increase production of protein-related wastes such as urea nitrogen, creatinine, etc.

While taking ketosteril medicines, patients should pay more attention to their blood potassium and blood calcium level. In case of persistent hypercalcemia, report it to the doctor and adjust the dosage of ketosteril and other medicines.

When serum creatinine is lowered and GFR is improved above 25, patients can stop taking ketosteril.

Though ketosteril is effective at lowering creatinine, slowing down illness progression and protecting residual kidney functions, it can not repair the already damaged renal tissues and recover the lost kidney functions. More effective treatments should be sought to improve and recover kidney functions.

Micro-Chinese medicine can remove immune complexes and necrotic tissues in the glomerular basement membrane and at the same time repair damaged basement membrane so as to alter kidney structure, increase glomerular filtration areas. As a result, GFR will be improved and creatinine will decrease naturally and gradually.

Weather it is ketosteril or other medicines and treatments, it needs a course, therefore patients should have more patience and co-operate with the doctors. During and after the treatments, it is necessary to prevent cold, control diets and moods and at the same time monitor blood pressure and blood sugar level.