What is Wrong If I Have an Elevated Creatinine Level

Creatinine refers to a chemical waste product in the blood that passes through the kidneys to be filtered and excrete in urine. The chemical waste is a by-product of normal muscle contractions. People who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) may suffer from high creatinine. So how does this occur?

CKD appear when the kidneys becomes damaged and are no longer able to properly filter waste and extra fluid out of the blood through urine. You will develop raised creatinine levels when the glomerular filtration mechanism becomes gradually damaged.

The higher the level is, the more damage there may be to the kidneys. A level greater than 1.50 mg/dl for male and 1.10 mg/dl for female is abnormal and may indicate kidney disease. For adult patients, dialysis is recommended when the number reach 10.0 mg/dl; for babies with chronic kidney disease, dialysis is recommended when the level is 2.0 mg/dl.

Symptoms of raised creatinine level

Symptoms are the same as Renal Failure symptoms. In some cases, people find out they have kidney failure without feeling any discomforts at all. Yet some persons may experience the following:

▪ Weakness, or fatigue

▪ Confusion

▪ Shortness of breath

▪ Dehydration

As the kidneys becomes increasing unable to cope, your disease will deteriorate. So it is necessary to find an effective treatment to repair the damaged filtration membrane and restore the kidney function so as to avoid dialysis.

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High Creatinine Levels after Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation happens after one’s kidney function is less than 15% left. This stage is called ESRD (End-stage Renal Disease), also known as CKD stage 5. Patients with CKD stage 5 or ESRD have to live with dialysis or kidney transplantation because their kidneys couldn’t function properly. Your new kidney may not work well in your body; the patient may experience high creatinine levels once again.

Patient may wonder why would that happen, and they probably would ask don’t I suppose to get a brand-new kidney, but how to explain these old problems? High creatinine levels, no matter occurs in people with Renal Failure or those after transplant, indicate the decreased kidney function. The elevated creatinine level depends on the cause of kidney dysfunction. Without examining, one cannot comment the possibility. But there are possible following reasons, just for your information.

For those whose Renal Failure or ESRD induced by the primary disease, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or some autoimmune disease, their raised creatinine level may result from the poorly treated or controlled primary disease.

Well, things change when one has a transplant rejection. This usually happens shortly after the surgery. It is your own immune system recognizes the foreign matter and then attacks it spontaneously. In serious cases, the anti-rejection drugs fail to suppress one’s immune system and lead to transplant failure in the end.

Other reasons accounting for the boosted creatinine level is urologic complication, infection, nephrotoxic drugs or unfavorable internal environment. All those may result in a kidney transplantation failure because the new kidney needs time to get used to the environment but those factors deprive of its right.

How to Reduce High Creatinine Levels Effectively

Creatinine is a substance produced by muscular activity when creatine phosphate is broken down. As a waste product, it is filtered from the blood by the kidneys, and so high creatinine levels in the blood can often indicate the kidney malfunction.

Normal range of serum creatinine

A creatinine level is the measurement of the amount of creatinine in a sample of blood. Normal range levels for male are 0.6~1.2ml/dL. For females, the normal range is between 0.5~1.1mg/dL.
Serum creatinine is an important blood test in diagnosing kidney disease, especially when you have elevated high creatinine in the blood and low creatinine in the urine at the same time.

What causes high creatinine levels in kidney disease?

A change in kidney function is the most common cause of high creatinine levels in the blood. Our kidneys are composed of approximately one million filters for each kidney, called nephrons. One nephron contains a glomerular-and tubule unit. Most creatinine is normally excreted out along these filtering units, so we can maintain the low blood creatinine levels.

In kidney disease, the renal nephrons are damaged, so the filtrating units fail to expel the creatinine in the blood stream adequately, resulting in elevated creatinine levels. Diabetes and chronic high blood pressure are common causes of diminished kidney function.

How to reduce high creatinine levels effectively?

We have found that the causes of high creatinine levels in kidney disease are due to damages to the nephrons, so in order to lower it effectively, we must repair the impaired nephrons and recover the kidney function.

Here, we'd like to introduce a natural remedy which can help you reduce high creatinine levels, known as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. This natural treatment combines traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with modern medical technology, and have been clinically used in our hospital to treat high creatinine and kidney disease successfully.