Usually, creatinine level are taken as a reliable indicator to reflect how well your kidney are functioning. Facing too high creatinine level, most doctor will suggest the treatment of dialysis.

However, there is a common complaint among dialysis patients: creatinine level is still higher during or after dialysis! Well then, does creatinine rise during or after dialysis?

Dialysis is the replace treatment of kidneys, which can help damaged kidneys discharge extra wastes and toxins from blood. So elevated creatinine level should be effectively brought down after dialysis. Why creatinine level is still high after dialysis? Please read on.

Creatinine is produced in proportional to muscle activity and usually is filtered out of the body by the healthy kidneys. Due to our kidneys’ strong compensatory abilities, as long as you have a half of kidney function, creatinine level does not rise. However, when serum creatinine level increase kidney function will have been halved. We should not deny the significant role of dialysis of kidney failure, to some extent, it indeed can help patients discharge extra wastes and prolong patients life. But, as a matter of fact, in long-term of dialysis, patients will suffer from some adverse effects. After all, it can not help patients repair kidney damage from the root. Now that the root problem cannot get solved, then creatinine level accordingly cannot be reduced.

In addition, it can cause dialysis cant help filter out the toxins and excess fluid from blood, so more and more creatinine will be gradually build up in blood, this will cause increased high creatinine level.

In modern medical area, dialysis is no longer the only treatment for discharge extra wastes and toxins. The newest treatment come from Traditional Chinese Medicine have been widely used in repairing kidney damage and protecting renal function, like Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Immunotherapy, Medicated Bath and so on. Any questions, please email to renal-disease@hotmail.com or leave a message below directly.