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Does Urea In High Content Have Adverse Effects On A Person Having CKD?
Hi My father has CKD. His creatinine is 8.7 and urea is 240. How dangerous Urea can be?? Doctors have advised dialysis twice a week. I am trying alternative medicine but am worried about urea 240 so want to know how dangerous is urea 240. what can be the effects of it? Please help..
Wed, 4 Jun 2014
High urea is not a specific marker but definitely may point to an inadequate dose of dialysis received. Now he needs to check other parameters for nutrition in hemodialysis patient and if normal, need not worry and in that case , we can ignore the urea level.
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