Ketosteril Treatment for Renal Failure

There are many treatment options for renal failure and ketosteril treatment has been advocated by both western and eastern nephrologists. It is one important non-dialysis therapy for chronic renal failure especially those that have developed into stage 4 CKD with glomerular filtration rate (GFR)lower than 25ml/min.

Due to metabolic disorder of protein and amino acids, chronic renal failure patients often have elevated serum creatinine level, blood urea nitrogen, uric acid as well as the accumulation of other metabolic wastes and toxins.

Ketosteril can supply necessary amino acids and at the same time reducing urea production and other nitrogen-containing wastes so as to alleviate uremic states and improve prognosis of renal failure. Ketosteril can make use of the nitrogen in non-essential amino acids and turn them into essential amino acids, that is why it can provide amino acids without producing too much urea and and other uremic wastes.

Of cause high creatinine and BUN is not the only concern for renal failure patients. The good news is that ketosteril has many other benefits for renal failure patients besides lowering serum creatinine level.

Ketosteril can rectify electrolyte imbalances and other disorders in the body such as hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcaemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism so as to improve bone malnutrition due to renal failure.

Besides treating protein metabolic disorder, ketosteril can also help balance lipid and sugar metabolism and alleviate metabolic acidosis.

Ketosteril has low renal toxicity, therefore it can be used as long-term treatment for renal failure along with low-protein diets (daily protein intake less than 40g for adult patients). This can help reduce protein leakage in urine and increase plasma albumin so as to improve renal failure patients’ nutritional state.

The curative effects of combining ketosteril treatment and low-protein diets has been confirmed. This non-dialysis therapy can help alleviate and control symptoms and complications of renal failure, protect residual renal tissues and renal functions and much slow down the illness progress of renal failure.