Dialysis is a treatment for kidney failure that removes waste and extra fluid from the blood, using a filter.
Level of Creatinine for DialysisWhat is the level of creatinine for dialysis? Serum creatinine level is an important indicator that can help to decide whether dialysis is needed or not for kidney failure patients. Dialysis helps to purify blood, which is very necessary for a kidney failure patient to live healthily. However, dialysis machine does not work as good as our kidneys. For patients with completely failed kidney, their survival rate decreases over time since the day they start dialysis. Though, choosing the proper time to start dialysis is very important. Well then, at what creatineine level is dialysis needed?
In theory, dialysis is required when creatinine increases to 5, as creatinine 5 means the toxins in the blood has caused serious threatening to our internal organs. However, in fact, many patients do not start dialysis at all even if their creatinine value has increased to a very high level.
Different people have different opinions toward this topic and kidney failure patients have their own right to decide when they will start dialysis. If you have a very high creatinine and no serious complications, you can live without dialysis, but once your toxins in the blood brings you discomforts like itching skin, nausea and vomit and so on, please start dialysis as early as possible, because these symptoms indicate toxins in tour blood is affecting your other internal organs.
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