Natural Ways to Lower High Creatinine Level in PKD

2014-04-08 06:53

High creatinine level is often regarded as a sign for PKD patients, which means their kidneys have been damaged severely and their kidney function is less than 50%. In this condition, PKD patients will always worry about their illness condition and want to have treatment to lower their high creatinine level. Because the unwell controlled creatinine level will also cause some severe damage to kidneys. In this article, we will introduce some natural ways which can help lower high creatinine level for PKD patients.

1. Keep a healthy lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle plays an important role for PKD patients, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect the residual kidney function. First, patients need to give up smoking and drinking alcohol, because it will cause the enlargement of kidney cysts and cause further damage to kidneys. Besides, patients with high creatinine level also need to limit the meat intake in their daily diet and avoid strenuous exercises, because this will cause elevated creatinine level in blood.

2. Take more fruits can help lower high blood creatinine

As the recent study shows that vitamin C has an eminent effect in lowering high creatinine level, so PKD patients can take more fruits which are high in vitamin C. However, they should choose the proper fruits depending on their illness condition. For PKD patients who have high potassium level in blood or high phosphorus level in blood should avoid the fruits high in potassium or phosphorus, which can help reduce the kidney burden and prevent kidney damage.

3. Control the high blood pressure

As we know, high blood pressure is a common symptom for PKD patients, and unwell controlled high blood pressure will increase the progression of kidney failure and cause the creatinine level elevated more severely. So PKD patients need to control their blood pressure firmly and prevent the increase of blood pressure.

4. Herbal teas

Herbal teas often regard as a natural ways to lower high creatinine level, because there are some herbal teas which can increase the urine output and help remove the creatinine into urine from body. The common herbal teas include nettle leaf tea, corn silk tea, dandelion root tea, etc. Since the illness condition will be different from case to case, so patients need to ask the advices of their doctors firstly, who can give the professional advice to them.

Above are the natural ways which can help PKD patients to lower their high blood pressure, if you still have some questions, you can contact our online doctor, they will answer you freely.

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