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Can Creatinine Be Brought Down by Peritoneal Dialysis

2013-01-25 10:32

Peritoneal dialysis is one of the major types of dialysis. Different from hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis makes use of peritoneum to function as semipermeable membrane. Through constant exchange of dialysate, excessive water, metabolic wastes and electrolytes will be cleared from the blood stream.

After peritoneal dialysis, high creatinine level can be brought down and clinical symptoms and complications can be much alleviated because peritoneal dialysis is just like an artificial kidney which can help discharge excessive creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, uric acid and other wasteful products out of the body so as to purify the blood and internal environment.

Though peritoneal dialysis has certain effects on lowering creatinine, the effects can not last long because our body will have muscle metabolism and release creatinine into the blood at a relatively stable rate, therefore patients will have to take peritoneal dialysis for several times a week.

What is more, peritoneal dialysis can not reduce high creatinine level down to normal level because even thorough dialysis at most equals to 6% kidney functions. Actually the ultimate aim of peritoneal dialysis is not to lower creatinine, but instead to eliminate life-threatening factors, improve life quality and enhance patients’ life expectancy as long as possible.

Though the decline rate of kidney functions in peritoneal dialysis is slower than that in hemodialysis, renal damages can not be reversed and renal functions will experience slow but progressive decline and loss.

What is more, long term peritoneal dialysis can cause many complications and side effects such as hypoalbuminemia, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, peritonitis, diarrhea, skin itching and bone pains, etc.

To bring creatinine down from the root and avoid peritoneal dialysis, more effective treatments should be sought to repair damaged renal tissues and improving renal functions so that creatinine can be discharged via the kidneys naturally.

Immunotherapy is a relatively new therapy for treating kidney diseases. It is the combination of western therapy and Chinese therapy and has take advantages of the both and has been proved to be more effective than mere Chinese medicines or western therapy.


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