Does Exercise Cause Creatinine to Go up in Kidney Patients

Kidney patients often concern about high creatinine level, because once creatinine level increases, it means your kidneys have been severely damaged. Besides declined kidney function, some other causes also affect creatinine level. Does exercise cause creatinine to go up in kidney patients? In the following article, let’s find the answer together.

Exercise causes creatinine level to go up.

Creatinine is the waste product of muscle contraction. Even breath can cause muscle contraction, so does exercise. When your kidneys are healthy, they can remove the creatinine from the blood, but when you get kidney disease, their function declines so that creatinine builds up in the blood. Therefore, exercise can cause creatinine level to go up.

However, you can still do some exercise.

Though exercise causes creatinine level to go up, it does not mean you can not exercise. Doing exercise regularly is good for heath, such as reduce blood pressure, lower cholesterol, strengthen immune system, boost your energy, prevent muscle cramp, improve appetite and sleeping quality, etc. But you should avoid strenuous exercise, such as football and basketball and choose some gentle exercise, such as walking, jogging, yoga and tai chi. Apart from the type of exercise, you should take frequency, duration and intensity of exercise into consideration. Only in this way can you get the health benefits of exercise to the maximum.

Other ways to prevent creatinine going up in kidney patients

Meat is also a source of creatinine, so you had better limit the intake of meat, but you can eat some lean meat to satisfy the need of body. Drinking some herbal tea, such as nettle leaf tea and dandelion root tea is also helpful for you to control creatinine level. The fundamental way to control creatinine level is to repair the damaged kidneys and improve kidney function. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is anti-inflammation, anti-coagulation, blood vessel dilation and extracellular matrix degradation so as to help kidney self-healing and normalize creatinine level. It is worth a try.

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