What Foods Can Bring High Creatinine Level Down

2015-04-18 10:12

Kidney disease patients all know creatinine is very important to human body. If serum creatinine level is higher than normal, people will suffer from many clinical symptoms like edema. Creatinine level has great relation with foods we eat. Well, what foods can we eat to bring high creatinine level down?

1. What foods will elevate creatinine level?

Foods with high salt will elevate creatinine level such as pickles and salted vegetables. In addition, meals in daily life should not be added too much salt. Too much salt will cause problems of kidney metabolism. Eating too much protein foods like seafood will put much burden on kidneys. Finally, lean meat especially chicken contains high protein levels, which will burden kidney’s metabolism and elevate creatinine level.

2. What foods can bring creatinine level down?

Low protein diet

Substances for kidney diseases are metabolic product of protein. Therefore, protein intake should be limited. However, you should not eliminate protein from your diet completely. Because protein is nutrient, if you do not eat protein, your body will compose muscle and cause uremia. Therefore, you should follow a balanced diet. Protein intake per day should be limited to 0.8-1.0gram per body weight.

Low protein foods for reducing high creatinine level include eggs, dairy and meat. But you should not eat too much because it will burden your kidneys.

Enough calories intake

Enough calories intake can promote the utilization of protein. You can eat foods with high calories but low protein.

Limit salt intake

Effective way to lower high creatinine also requires salt limitation. How much salt intake depends on whether you have high blood pressure and edema.

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