Can Dialysis Reduce High Creatinine Level

It can not be denied that dialysis can definitely reduce high creatinine level, but this creatinine-lowering effect by dialysis is passive because dialysis is just a machine to remove excessive creatinine out of the blood.

However, our body will continue to produce creatinine through muscle metabolism at a relatively constant rate, therefore patients will have to go to kidney disease hospital to have regular dialysis several times a week or excessive creatinine will build up in their body, resulting in recurrent high creatinine. To lower creatinine level, usually patients will have 3 times dialysis every week and each dialysis lasts for 4-5 hours to ensure the adequacy of dialysis so as to improve curative effects of dialysis and reduce side effects and complications of dialysis.

When creatinine clearance rate (Ccr) drops below 10-12mL/min, creatinine can not be cleared efficiently and they will build up in the blood stream. As a result, serum creatinine level will be elevated and patients will be suggested to have dialysis.

However it is not rare that in some cases the high creatinine level can not be brought down after dialysis or even if the high creatinine can be reduced, patients have to rely on dialysis and creatinine will once again be very high once dialysis is stopped or under some inducements such as catching cold or infections. The root cause of these conditions is due to damaged kidney functions because dialysis can not prevent further deterioration of kidney damages and continuous decline of kidney functions.

In a word, dialysis has quick and obvious effects on lowering high creatinine level, but the effect is passive and can not last long. After dialysis, high creatinine will once again appear and patients will have to have dialysis again and in the end many patients will find it hard to get rid of dialysis.

Micro-Chinese medicine is a more natural and thorough therapy for lowering creatinine level because it repairs kidney damages and improve kidney functions so that creatinine can be filtered outsides by the kidneys. If you have begun dialysis, Micro-Chinese medicines can also help you gradually get rid of dialysis or at least much reduce the frequency of dialysis.

Besides dialysis and Micro-Chinese medicines, low-protein and less meat intake can also help control high creatinine and protect remaining kidney functions.