P: Hello, my father is a diabetic for the past 10 years and he has been on insulin for 6 years. His creatinine went up to 5.1 and potassium 6.5. After hospitalization, blood glucose has dropped to 4.8 and blood potassium under normal range 4.5. Here are my questions:
1. Is dialysis needed at all? If creatine keeps on dropping slowly, even then dialysis? Need your advice, as my father and my family would not like to opt for dialysis and would prefer to keep her creatinine levels down with strict diet, and medication, Yoga and meditation.
2. If dialysis is needed, then it will be periodical, lets say monthly or twice a month, once in two months OR thrice weekly/lifelong?
D: Hello, sir. I can totally understand your feelings for the moment. Now here are my explanations:
First, I will firstly analyze the general illness condition:
Your father’s condition is diabetes-led kidney disease, or diabetic nephropathy. Our kidneys are made up of millions of nephrons that can perform normal filtration, secretion and regulation functions. But persis