Causes and Treatment for High Creatinine with Kidney Infection

Kidney infection is one relatively severe renal disease and in case of kidney infections, patients will have high fever, lower back pain, cloudy urine or even blood in urine, vomiting and always feel the urgency to urination.

Kidney infection should not be neglected because it can cause permanent renal damages and progress into chronic kidney disease without timely and proper treatments. What is worse, the infection can affect the blood system and cause blood poisoning.

Kidney infection surely can cause high creatinine when more than 50% kidney functions are damaged. Infections in the kidneys can cause inflammatory reactions, swelling and enlargement of the affected kidney. As a result, normal renal cells and tissues will be damaged and kidney functions will be lost. When kidney functions are damaged, serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, uric acid and other metabolic wastes can not be discharged efficiently and will instead accumulate in the blood stream and body, that is why creatinine will increase after one get kidney infections.

The common causes of high creatinine in kidney infections are frequent urinary tract infections, urinary obstructions due to kidney stone, kidney cyst or enlarged prostate gland.

You might think kidney infection is common and easy to be cured. It indeed is if it is treated in the early stage. But some patients just do not pay enough attention to it until their creatinine begin to be abnormally high which means that their kidneys have been damaged by the infection.

Usually antibiotics and over-the-counter painkillers will be prescribed by the doctors . Patients should take the medicine and have some tests if necessary under the doctor’s guidance and it is necessary and important to take the medicines for full course and do not reduce dosage or stopped the medicines without the doctor’s permission even when the clinical symptoms have disappeared.

Here are some herbs and foods that can help prevent and treat kidney infections so as to help lower creatinine and protect kidney functions. They are cranberry, bearberry, nettle, dandelion root, couch grass, corn silk and parsley, etc.

Besides, have adequate rest and drink a lot of water can prevent dehydration which is one cause of high creatinine in kidney infections. More water intake can also increase urine output so as help flush the infections and more metabolic wastes with urine. Hope this can help you!