What Causes High Creatinine Levels

2015-10-27 07:57

What causes high creatinine levels? In the first place, creatinine is a waste and end product which is produced by muscle metabolism. Creatine which is very common in all food can be decomposed into creatinine in ou body. Thus, patients with high creatinine level should limit intake food which is high in creatine. Creatinine level means creatinine in our blood, and the level is in a regular range:0.5-1.2 mg/dL. If you are higher than this value, it means you have high creatinine level.

Creatinine is eliminated from body through urine by kidney filtering the blood. In most cases, high creatinine level is related to kidney function. Now please see details of causes of high creatinine.

1. slow blood flow

if kidney circulation is blocked, and blood flow become slow, creatinine level can be increasing. Heart failure, dehydration, and artery disease can lead to slow flow blood.

2. creatinine sources

if people have much creatinine sources, it is very likely to cause high creatinine level. Some people who like fitness may take some creatine supplement in daily life to help strengthen muscles. In this way, high creatinine can be resulted in. animal organs and meat always contain much creatine. Thus, for patients with high creatinin level, you should have a low meat and more vegetables daily diet.

3. kidney damage

if kidney gets damaged, kidney function begins to drop. Excessive creatinine can not be removed from body through urine by kidney function. In this way, high creatinine level is led to finally.

4. urinary tract obstruction

If there is urinary tract obstruction happening on people, flow urine can be affected, in this way, high creatinine will occur. Kidney stones can block urinary tract. In addition, congenital obstructions, postinjury are also causes of urinary tract obstruction.

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