Can Dialysis Treat Kidney Failure?

Can dialysis treat kidney failure? When kidney disease patients have more than 445umol/L creatinine every day, they are suggested to take dialysis. Dialysis is a technology which can discharge the small molecules such as creatinine, and so on, thus purifying the blood environment so as to control the deterioration to some extent.
However, only dialysis is not enough for with kidney disease developing, middle molecules and big molecules can also leak out, which needs blood filtration, blood perfusion, and so on. In addition, most of kidney diseases are caused by immune complex in the blood and onto kidney when the immune system is out of order, which leads to a series of excessive immune reaction, thus causing kidney disease symptoms. Plasma exchange can really help clear away the immune complex, which is suitable for lupus nephritis in particular.
Besides, when kidney disease takes place, there must be damaged intrinsic cells and necrotic intrinsic cells, which should be repaired or differentiated. So Chinese medicine and stem cells are also applied, both of which are parts of immunotherapy in our Hospital, which can be divided into immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection.
Immune diagnosis can help us know the type of immune complex, the exact place where there is the immune complex and the accurate amount of immune complex, which can supply evidence for the treatment plan of doctor.
Immune clearance includes dialysis and other purifications such as plasma exchange, which can help create a better inner environment for the treatment.
Immune adjustment and immune protection can help repair the damaged intrinsic cells, differentiate into intrinsic cells and increase the immune ability at the same time. In these two steps, Chinese Medicine and stem cells are applied. Chinese Medicine can help clear away the immune complex which deposit onto the kidney. In contrast, immune clearance can only clear those in blood.
So from the above, we can get a conclusion that dialysis is only part of the whole immunotherapy system. If you are in kidney failure stage, you should find out a systematic treatment which can ensure the effects of treatment.