High Creatinine Level and Frequent Urination in PKD

2014-08-20 02:07

What can cause the high creatinine level and frequent urination in PKD? Both high creatinine level and frequent urination are common symptoms in PKD, then do you know why patients will have the symptoms? In this article, we will have further understanding of these questions.

What can cause high creatinine level in PKD?

I believe high creatinine level in blood is a big trouble for all the kidney disease patients. Because when patients have high creatinine level in blood, then we know that they have less then 50% kidney function.

PKD is a genetic kidney disease, and there are lots of kidney cysts on kidneys, which will gradually increase and get enlarged. And the big kidney cysts will oppress the surrounding kidney tissues and cause kidney damage, which will finally cause kidney failure. When the kidneys fail to work well, it will fail to excrete the creatinine into urine, then patients will have high creatinine level in blood.

What can cause frequent urination in PKD?

As we know, kidneys have the function of removing the excess fluid in body and purify the blood, and it can help make urine to keep the balance of the internal environment in body. However, when the kidneys are damaged, the kidneys will fail to work well, then patients will have urine changes, and frequent urine especially at nigh is a common one for PKD patients.

In addition, PKD patients often have the complication of urinary tract infection (UTI), which is easily to cause the frequent urination for PKD patients.

From above, we can know the main causes of high creatinine level and frequent urination for PKD patients, so they need to have effective treatment to control the symptoms and lower the high creatinine level in blood. If you want to get the specific treatment, you can ask our online doctor, or you can also leave a message, we will do our best to help you.

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