How to Lower High Creatinine for Nephrotic Syndrome with FSGS

I have Nephrotic Syndrome caused by FSGS, and my creatinine level is 2.4. How to Lower high creatinine for Nephrotic Syndrome with FSGS? Recently, one patient consults this question online. Because FSGS is a common cause of Nephrotic Syndrome, many other patients may also have this problem.

Creatinine is muscle metabolic waste, and normally, the healthy kidneys keep creatinine level range between 0.5mg/dl and 1.3mg/dl. These values can change with age. For people with Nephrotic Syndrome due to FSGS, their prognosis is usually not so good. As their kidney function loses, more and more creatinine will build up in the body. Then, high creatinine level occurs as a consequence of loss of more than 50% kidney function.

At present, there are mainly three choices to lower elevated creatinine level for kidney disease patients: dialysis, western medicines and herbal medicines.

If your creatinine level is lower than 5.0 and don’t have severe complications, you are not recommended to start dialysis, because it is dangerous to stop it, once you begin to rely on dialysis to live. However, we all know the longer patients on dialysis, the more complications they have. Therefore, don’t start dialysis unless your condition requires.

Western medicines like ketosteril can help lower high creatinine level and protect the remaining kidney function, but these medicines are man-made so that they are more likely to cause many side effects. Each of these side effect may worsen your condition.

Herbal medicines, compared with the above medicines, all come from natural herbs that have 5000 years’ history. Without any side effect, herbal medicines are favored by more and more patients who have Nephrotic Syndrome with FSGS to lower their high creatinine level. For example, rheum officinale is commonly used to improve patients’ kidney function and increase the rate of kidney filtering creatinine and bun.

You are suggested to accept correct treatment according to your condition. Treated timely, you can get rid of high creatinine level successfully.