Are There Any Symptoms Associated with Elevated Blood Creatinine Levels

2015-10-21 01:39

Many reasons can make people have elevated blood creatinine level, and the direct cause is the decline of kidney function. Then is there any symptom if creatinine level elevates? As for this question, it mainly varies from one to another, and please see the below:

For some people with high creatinine level, they can have no any symptoms occurring after creatinine level elevates and kidney function declines gradually. For patients with kidney failure, symptoms usually happen from stage 3 kidney failure, and become serious at stage 4 and stage 5.

But for other people, they may have the below severe symptoms when creatinine is increasing:

Weakness

Fatigue

Protein in urine

Nausea and vomiting

Blood in urine

Anemia

Short breath

In most cases, creatinine level increases because kidney function decreases, which makes excessive creatinine can not get removed from body through urine. Kidney has a property which is called compensatory function, meaning that a kidney can work as much well as two ones. Thus, if kidney function declines to less than 50%, creatinine level will increase.

For people with diabetes or high blood pressure, it is necessary to do blood test or creatinine test in life regularly, because they are at higher risk of developing kidney failure and causing high creatinine level.

How to lower creatinine level fundamentally?

Recovering kidney function is the key to treating high creatinine level. Chinese medicine is a good option, which can promote blood circulation and expand blood vessels and prevent inflammation. Kidney function is going to be under recovery gradually, in this way, much creatinine in body can be eliminates through urine. Having a good diet is necessary to treat high creatinine, which should be set up by following doctor and dietitians’ suggestions.

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