Is Itching A Symptom Of High Creatinine

Is itching a symptom of high creatinine? Patients with different creatinine level will experience different symptoms, but they will experience itchy skin with the increase of creatinine level.

For people with high creatinine level, symptoms of itchy skin mostly results from high blood urea nitrogen which should have been discharged by kidneys. Healthy kidneys work to filter creatinine from blood along with other waste products from your body and this creatinine passes out of the body through urination. However, damaged kidneys fail to remove these wastes so high creatinine level occurs. Many wastes in your blood will cause itchy skin.

How to relieve itchy skin with high creatinine level?

1. Dialysis

Dialysis is usually recommended to help kidneys to remove wastes from the blood. With the decrease of wastes in blood, itchy skin can be alleviated to some extent.

2. Diet

Patients with high creatinine should limit protein intake to reduce urea production. This also reduce workload on kidneys. Besides, patients need to follow a low sodium, low phosphorus and potassium diet as well.

3. Improve kidney function

The radical solution for high creatinine level should repair kidney damage and improve renal function. When kidney function is improved, kidneys can remove more wastes from the body so as to alleviate itchy skin. In China, nowadays the most effective remedy for improving renal function is Chinese medicine treatment like Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Mai Kang Mixture, Medicated Bath, Medical soup and acupuncture, enema therapy and acupoint application, etc. They are created to repair kidney damage and improve renal function radically. The active ingredients can come to kidney lesion directly and have the functions of dilating blood vessels, preventing inflammation and coagulation, degrading extracellular matrix and providing nutrients for damaged kidneys. Gradually kidney damage can be repaired and kidney function can be improved. Not only itchy skin but also other symptoms like anemia, high blood pressure, proteinuria can all be alleviated effectively and fundamentally.