2015年11月24日星期二

Creatinine Level for Starting Dialysis

Dialysis is an important substitutive therapy for the patients with Renal Failure. It replaces the native kidneys to discharge the wastes and excessive water out of body so as to maintain the physiological activities. However, once dialysis starts, it will not be able to be terminated any more. Therefore, the patients with Renal Failure frighten to take dialysis. Then what is the proper creatinine level for starting dialysis becomes the most concerned issue by the patients with Renal Failure.

Firstly, it is necessary for the patients with Renal Failure to know what creatinine is and what the normal level of creatinine is. Creatinine is the metabolic product of muscles and is mainly discharged out of body by kidneys. Therefore, it can keep a stable level in the blood. The normal creatinine level in male adults is 0.6~1.2 mg/dl and 0.5~1.0 mg/dl in female. If a person is born with only with one kidney, the creatinine level ranges 1.8~1.9 mg/dl. For the new infants, as they do not have muscles, their creatinine level is just 0.2 mg/dl. Generally speaking, when the creatinine level exceeds 5 mg/dl in adults and 2 mg/dl in infants, they should consider starting dialysis. However, the creatinine levels may vary with different hospitals and even different labs. Therefore, the patients should know the specific creatinine reference level of his/her test results. The above creatinine levels for starting dialysis are just reference levels. If the patients with Renal Failure have serious complications like nausea, vomit, high blood pressure and so on, they should start dialysis earlier. Moreover, in Diabetic Nephropathy, the creatinine level is not a sensitive index in reflecting the real disease condition. Therefore, the patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should start dialysis earlier than those caused by other Kidney Disease.


Generally speaking, the patients with Renal Failure are recommended to start dialysis at an early time in order to protect their residual renal function. However, dialysis can not repair the damaged kidneys and also can lead to a series of complications like skin itching, hypotension, heart disease and so on. The patients with Renal Failure have a strong resistance to dialysis. In recent years, with the medicines development, the combined application of traditional Chinese medicines and advanced Western medicines make the patients with Renal Failure avoid dialysis. If you or your loved ones are Renal Failure suffers and do not endure the sufferings caused by dialysis, please consult us on line or email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.

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