Dialysis Helps Lower High Creatinine Levels

In case of high creatinine levels and if it is not dangerously high, doctors will first recommend diet and exercises or some medicines to help lower the creatinine levels down.

When high creatinine can not be well controlled with diets and medicines or it shoot up very high within short time, dialysis may be needed.

It can not be denied that dialysis has quick and obvious effects on lowering high creatinine levels because it can purify the blood and remove water, electrolytes and some micromolecular wastes and toxins from the blood such as creatinine, urea nitrogen, uric acid, etc. When excessive creatinine is removed, high serum creatinine levels will be reduced. So dialysis can be an effective method to bring high creatinine levels down.

Dialysis is indeed effective treatment for high creatinine, but it can not be called a treatment for kidney disease-the underlying cause of persistently high creatinine in most cases. This is because dialysis is just a machine which just work passively to remove creatinine outsides. We know that creatinine is the end product of muscle metabolism. Our muscle mass is relatively constant, so creatinine will be produced and released into the blood at a constant rate, that is why high creatinine patients will have to have several times dialysis to keep the creatinine low.

Another concerning issue is that dialysis is not easy to get rid of once it is started. This is because the patients will develop dependence on dialysis and their remaining kidney functions will be gradually lost since they will cease to fight to work when dialysis replace the kidney’s function to filter the blood. That is why some patients will still have very high creatinine levels after dialysis and illness conditions will become even worse. That is become after years’ dialysis, nearly all kidney functions will be lost and there are many other large molecular wastes buildup which can not be cleared by mere dialysis. Continuously worsening kidney functions will cause refractory high creatinine and patients have to have more frequent dialysis, not to mention the complications of dialysis or its huge cost.

In a word, dialysis can help lower high creatinine levels, but it should not be taken as the mere treatment for high creatinine and kidney disease because it is not very good from the long run. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Immunotherapy are all more effective treatments because they aim at repairing renal damages and improving kidney functions so that high creatinine levels will be lowered naturally and the effects are lasting.