Objective To investigate the effect and safety of alprostadil in the treatment of diabetes complicating chronic kid‐ney disease to provide reference for clinical treatment .Methods 84 cases of diabetes complicating chronic kidney disease in this hospital from September 2013 to January 2015 were selected and divided into the observation group(44 cases) and the control group (40 cases) according to the voluntary principle .The control group used the epalrestat treatment ,while the observation group was combined with using alprostadil on the basis of control group .The effective rate ,serum creatinine ,blood urea nitrogen(BUN) ,uri‐nary albumin excretion rate ,C‐reactive protein(CRP) ,IL‐6 levels and adverse reactions were compared between the two groups .Re‐sults The effective rate of the observation group was 93 .18% ,which was significantly higher than 80 .00% in the control group , the difference was statistically significant (χ2 =4 .251 ,P=0 .005);the CRP and IL‐6 levels after treatment in the observation group were improved ,the difference was statistically significant (P<0 .05);the CRP and IL‐6 levels after treatment in the observation group[(0 .45 ± 0 .05)mg/L ,[(0 .72 ± 0 .11)μg/L] were significantly superior than[(1 .05 ± 0 .14)mg/L ,(1 .25 ± 0 .24)μg/L] in the control group ,the differences were statistically significant(P<0 .05);BUN ,urinary albumin excretion rate ,TNF‐αand endogenous creatinine clearance rate after treatment in the observation group were (6 .41 ± 1 .12)mmol/L ,(41 .12 ± 4 .46)μg/min ,(75 .54 ± 6 .64)ng/L and (92 .94 ± 8 .24)% ,which in the control group were (7 .39 ± 1 .05)mmol/L ,(91 .48 ± 7 .31)mmol/L ,(111 .42 ± 7 .69)ng/L and (81 .55 ± 9 .54)% respectively ,the improvement in the observation group was better than the control group ,the difference was statistically significant (P<0 .05);the occurrence rate of adverse reactions was 18 .18% in the observation group and 17 .50% in the control group ,showing the difference was not statistically significant (P>0 .05) .Conclusion Alprostadil in treating diabetes complicating chronic kidney disease has better effect ,conduces to improve the level of urinary albumin and inflammatory with high safety ,and is worthy of clinical promotion and application .