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Date Posted: 22:31:24 09/28/06 Thu
In reply to:
nancy
's message, "question for a nephrologist" on 23:42:23 09/27/06 Wed
>My daughter was diagnosed with Lupus 3 years ago.
>During her successful prenancy last year, her
>'numbers' in her blood test were excellent. She
>became laxed in didn't have another blood test until a
>couple of months ago. Her creatinine level (which has
>been 1200 during the lupus diagnosis) was at 560.
>Since normal range is not above 1.1 (I believe), isn't
>this EXTREMELY high? When she went to her kidney dr.
>recently, he said short of her going on life long
>medicine (did not mention what medicine), nothing
>needed to be done...just check it again in 6 months.
>This seemed VERY laxed to me. At that level (and
>since her number has been high except for pregnancy
>time), isn't a kidney biopsey in order to see if
>damage to the kidney has been done? I'm afraid this
>will damage her kidneys over time if they don't get to
>the root of the problem. What should be her next
>step...where should she go from here?
If it were me I'd have blood work done again, and schedule an ultrasound of both kidneys -- WITHOUT the DYE which can cause kidneys to fail. I'd prefer that the ultrasound be done by a urologist or someone who does many kidney ultrasounds.
I'd also ask for a referral to a dietician for assistance in getting on a renal diet.
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