At What Serum Creatinine Level Dialysis Is Required
For patients with kidney disease, creatinine level is an important reflection of their kidney function. As a matter of fact, the higher patient’s creatinine level is, the severer kidney damage patient has. Well then , at what serum creatinine level dialysis is required?
Why high creatinine has significant meaning?
Creatinine is a substance which should be filtrated out by kidney, and it can not be reabsorbed back to blood by kidney tubule, so its level in blood can reflect patient’s kidney function.
Many factors can cause patients to have high creatinine, but for patients with kidney disease, high creatinine mainly refers to the condition which is caused by kidney damage.
If patients with kidney disease have high creatinine, it will be very dangerous. Patient may think their condition is not very severe if his creatinine level is just a bit higher than normal. However, the truth is patient’s condition is already very severe when patient’s creatinine begin to be high. Because when the accumulated creatinine is higher than normal, that means more than half normal kidney function has already been damaged.
At what serum creatinine level dialysis is required?
When patient’s kidney function is damaged severely, and when patient’s metabolic disorders can cause severe health problems in patient’s body, patients will need dialysis to prolong their lifetime.
In fact, patient’s creatinine level is indeed a standard to judge whether dialysis is needed. When creatinine is high enough, that means patient’s kidney function is so low that lots of wastes and toxins will accumulate in patient’s body, and patient’s body tolerance may not be able to bear.
In fact, for most patients, when their creatine level is about 5, their doctor may recommend them to take dialysis. But not every patient will need dialysis at this point, because patients’ tolerance abilities to toxins in their body are different, and some patients may not have bad feeling even their creatinine level is higher than this level.
As we know, kidney disease is very severe, so patients should do what they can to improve their condition. If you have any trouble in dealing with your disease, you can leave us a message, and we will do what we can to help you.
