How to Lower Creatinine Level with PKD

For patients with PKD, their creatinine level decide whether they need to start dialysis directly. And generally, when their creatinine increases to 5, dialysis will be needed. Therefore, keeping a creatinine level lower than 5 means a lot for them. Also, the lower, the better to some extent. But the problem is how to lower creatinine level with PKD?

Creatinine is a break-down product of creatine phosphate in muscle and the level of it is usually kept in a stable range. For patients with PKD, they suffer from high creatinine level when their kidney function is affected seriously. PKD is a hereditary kidney problem marked by countless cysts in kidney. These cysts are fluid-filled and enlarge over time. Therefore, when the cysts enlarge to a certain size, kidney function is affected. Most often, creatinine level does not increase when a half of kidney function is affected, so high creatinine always indicate serious kidney damages for PKD patients.

How to lower creatinine level with PKD? To stop creatinine level from increasing, both proper diet and medical measures are necessary. According to clinical studies, creatinine level increases after we eat lots of meats or do drastic physical activities, so reducing meat intake and physical activities are necessary. Besides, high-salt diet and high-protein diet can worsen kidney function and then elevate creatinine level directly. Therefore, limiting protein intake and salt intake are also helpful. Creatinine level is susceptible for diet, so it is necessary for PKD patients to adjust their diet. However, as the major cause for high creatinine level is decreased kidney function, protect residual kidney function means a lot.

Nowadays, many methods have been adopted to help PKD patients to lower creatinine level and clinical studies show that some herbs have great treatment effects in shrinking kidney cysts. We know kidney function decreases because of enlarged and increasing kidney cyst, so stopping kidney cyst from increasing and enlarging will help to avoid further kidney damages. As long further kidney damages are avoided, PKD stop progressing and also creatinine level stop increasing. Additionally, herbs used in treating PKD can supply necessary nutritions for damaged kidney cells, which can help to active them and make them function again. In this way, kidney function in PKD cases can be improved to some extent and with improved kidney function, creatinine level decreases naturally.