IgA Nephropathy: Should I Continue Dialysis with Recurrent High Creatinine

Some patients with IgA Nephropathy may progress to Chronic Kidney Failure with the loss of kidney function. If this happens, dialysis treatment has to be adopted. During Dialysis, patients may still have recurrent high creatinine level. If this happens, should they continue dialysis? You can chat with our online doctor directly if you want more helpful advice.

Firstly, we should know the reason why people still have recurrent high creatinine even on dialysis.

Actually, dialysis is just a renal replacement therapy which takes place of the kidneys' partial functions (mainly filter the blood and clean metabolic wastes). IgA Nephropathy with Kidney Failure patients need to do dialysis regularly, as the body continuously producing metabolic waste products.

One reason for high creatinine is inadequate dialysis. Generally, IgA Nephropathy patients with Kidney Failure need to do dialysis 3 times per week.

Another reason is that the kidney damages are too severe and there are other toxic substances other than creatinine that cannot be eliminated by dialysis. These harmful toxins will make kidney function worse.

IgA Nephropathy: should I continue dialysis with recurrent high creatinine? You can email us at kidneyservice@hotmail.com with your detailed illness condition. Then more specific advice can be given to you.

If IgA Nephropathy on dialysis patients' creatinine are recurrent high, they need to report this problem to their doctor and have increased frequency of dialysis to see it this is helpful.

Meanwhile, in order to lower creatinine better, patients are suggested to get other techniques to purify the blood including hemofiltration, hemoperfusion, plasma exchange, immune adsorption and so on.

The fundamental way to reduce high creatinine level after dialysis for IgA Nephropathy patients is to repair the damaged kidneys and improve kidney function or GFR level. With better renal function, the frequency of dialysis can be reduced or even get rid of dialysis.

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