Should Patients with Creatinine 10 Start Dialysis

Creatinine 10 is too much higher than normal range of creatinine, and it can tell the condition has already developed stage 5 chronic kidney disease, also known as ESRD. Then should patients with creatinine 10 start dialysis?

It is difficult to say whether patients with creatinine 10 should start dialysis or not without knowing too much. Dialysis will be recommended to be started when kidney function drops to 15% or less, or if patients have severe symptoms including fatigue, muscle cramps, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, etc, doctor will help decide when to start dialysis, based on results of lad tests that measure how much kidney function is left and on patients’ specific symptoms. If patients with creatinine 10 are not having any obvious symptoms, they may be able to wait a bit longer before beginning dialysis.

If you want to avoid dialysis at all costs, then you should know that making kidneys work again by repairing kidney damage and recovering renal function is the only way. That is also the reason why those foreign patients come to China for Chinese medicine therapies regardless of the distance.

If you don’t have symptoms yet, you may choose to start dialysis early or wait several months to a year to start it. Starting early may improve nutrition, reduce fluid in the body, and reduce your chance of going into the hospital for complications from kidney failure. Once you decide to have it, dialysis will become a big part of your life.

So when patients with creatinine 10 should start dialysis depends on not only the lab tests also their own will. We are here helping kidney failure patients find alternatives to dialysis, if need any help, feel free to contact us, we are glad to help you.