Is High Creatinine Level Always Kidney Failure

2014-12-15 03:40

High creatinine level is the concerned question by every kidney disease patient. Creatinine can reflect the condition of kidney function. The higher the creatinine level, the lower the kidney function. Is creatinine level elevation always kidney failure?

1. Kidney failure and high creatinine level

Creatinine is a kind of metabolism of human body. Its main ingredient is creatine. Creatine can provide energy for our muscle activity. As long as muscle do activity, it will consume energy and then produce creatinine. However, the production of creatinine will accumulate in the body. This will do damages on your body. Creatinine should be removed out of the body through urine by glomerular. When kidney function is normal, creatinine can be removed by glomerular, while when kidney function is damaged, kidneys cannot discharge creatinine level from the body. So high creatinine level will occur.

2. Other causes for high creatinine level

Dehydration

Dehydration caused by fever, hidrosis, less fluid intake and polyuria stage can cause hemoconcentration and decreased renal blood flow. This will elevate serum creatinine level.

Bad living habits

Tiredness, bad breaks and do not pay attention to living details. All these can lead to temporary elevation of serum creatinine.

High blood pressure and massive proteinuria

Primary high blood pressure and uncontrollable blood pressure as well as massive proteinuria can gradually induce high serum creatinine level.

High creatinine does not always indicate kidney disease and kidney failure. It can also be caused by other medical conditions. Therefore, once you have elevated creatinine level, you should not worry too much about it. You should first find out the root cause of elevated creatinine level. If it is not caused by kidney problem, you can take some medication and some food to lower high creatinine level. As for high creatinine level in kidney failure, you should accept systematic treatment to block the development of kidney fibrosis, eliminate immune complex and lesion tissues and meanwhile repair damaged glomerular basement membrane. As long as damaged glomerular basement membrane is restored and expand glomerular filtering area. Thus, serum creatinine level will be lowered fundamentally.

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