Why Creatinine Level Goes High after Dialysis

My father with renal failure has gone through dialysis for several times. The doctors in dialysis center told us that my father’s creatinine level would come down after dialysis. However, his creatinine level goes up rather than down. Can you tell me why creatinine level goes high after dialysis, doctor? Is there any other way to lower high creatinine level?

Dialysis is called artificial kidney, because it can replace damaged kidney to remove wastes, excess water and toxins from the body. Generally, dialysis does have an obvious and quick effect of lowering high creatinine level. As for your father’s elevated creatinine level after dialysis, there are mainly two reasons.

The first one is that your father dialysis isn’t sufficient, that means, dialysis doesn’t remove creatinine from the blood fully. Long-term unsufficient dialysis is more likely to cause some life-threatening complications. The second one is that your father creatinine level goes up between two dialysis treatments. Dialysis is a kidney replacement therapy rather than repairing damaged kidney, so it can only lower patients’ high creatinine level temporarily and serum creatinine goes up easily between dialysis intervals. To make elevated creatinine level come down and maintain stable for a long time, repairing damaged kidney and kidney function improvement is a must.

How to repair damaged kidney tissues? Herbal medicines give people with advanced kidney disease a new hope. Because all herbal medicines come from natural herb plants and have had 5,000 years of history, they, compared with western medicines, have an outstanding advantage of improving regeneration of new tissues and increasing the blood flow on the kidney to take more wastes including creatinine away. For example, rheum officinale and astragalus mongholicus both can help improve patients’ kidney function. With increased kidney function, patients with end-stage kidney disease can regain a relatively health life.

Never give up, even though you are also faced by this problem that your creatinine level goes high after dialysis. Many kidney experts are always here to give you biggest help.