Creatinine Is So High After Dialysis

High creatinine is one common laboratory abnormality for kidney disease patients and persistently high level of serum creatinine means that the kidneys are severely damaged.

Dialysis is one common blood purification to help lower high creatinine, clear other metabolic wastes and toxins so as to purify the bloodstream and internal environment.

Usually high creatinine will be significantly reduced after dialysis, however there are some cases that patients still have very high creatinine after dialysis.

In such case, it can be due to inadequate dialysis. Usually patients will have to do 3 times dialysis each w

eek and each dialysis should lasts for 4-5 hours to ensure fully dialysis and achieve better clearing effects. What is more, inadequate dialysis will cause many side effects. Therefore, consult your doctor to design a more suitable dialysis plan according to your specific illness and physical conditions.

Underlying dialysis at more frequent intervals can help alleviate high creatinine after dialysis.

Another reason is that kidney functions experience further decline. We all know that dialysis is not a cure for kidney disease at all though it can alleviate symptoms and sustain life for the patients.

Dialysis is just an artificial machine to replace part of kidney functions. But it can not repair renal damages or reverse further deterioration of kidney functions. What is more, patients will become dependent on dialysis and remaining functional units will gradually cease to work.

Creatinine is not the only waste in the body and actually it is just a micromolecular substance. Besides creatinine, blood urea nitrogen and uric acid, there are many middle-molecular and macromolecular toxins which can not be discharged by dialysis. To remove these larger wastes and toxins, more advanced blood purification technologies like hemofiltration and hemoperfusion should be combined with dialysis.

At last I want to say, dialysis can not restore creatinine to the normal range for patients with advanced renal damages even though their creatinine can be much lowered.

Only if kidney functions are improved can creatinine and other toxic substances be removed naturally and high creatinine be lowered from the root.