High Creatinine Levels: Symptoms And Treatment

What creatinine can be called high creatinine levels? The normal creatinine level for women and men are different. It is 0.5-1.0 for women and 0.7-1.2 for men. If creatinine is higher than the normal range and this condition lasts for quite long time and it can not be lowered with diet and life habit adjustments, it is called high creatinine levels.

What does high creatinine levels mean? High creatinine especially persistently high levels of serum creatinine is most likely caused by renal dysfunction, that is loss of kidney functions due to renal damages or renal injuries.

Why I have no symptoms at all with high creatinine? If creatinine is just slightly higher than the normal range such as 1.3 for men, 1.2 for women, patients can have no obvious symptoms at all. However if patients do not pay enough attention, creatinine will continue to become higher and patients can have the following symptoms and complains such as lower back pain, reduced urine output, dark colored urine, low fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, dehydration, headache, shortness of breath, confusion, disorientation, etc.

Treatments for high creatinine levels include several aspects including diets, exercises, medicines.

General diet principles for high creatinine levels are low-protein, less meat products especially fats, low-salt, more fresh vegetables and fruits that are high in vitamins. Drink more water, avoid coffee, cola, tobacco, etc.

Since creatinine is the end product of muscle metabolism, reducing strenuous activities can help reduce muscle breakdown so as to reduce the production of creatinine and this can relieve much burdens to the impaired kidneys. If patients have the above mentioned symptoms such as back pain, fever, dark colored urine, patients should stop work and have good rest.

Medicines for high creatinine include blood pressure medicines and antidiabetic drugs if the patients have blood pressure and blood sugar problems because they are the major causes of kidney damages and high creatinine levels. Controlling high blood pressure and high blood sugar can prevent further damages to the kidney function and to a certain degree recover some kidney functions so as to help lower high creatinine.

For patients with more advanced kidney damages, ketosteril can be prescribed to help lower high creatinine, reduce uremic states, protect residual kidney functions and slow down illness progression.