How Can I Lower My Urea And Creatinine
Patients with kidney disease may often hear their urea and creatinine levels are high, and they may know these substances are harmful to their health. Thereby, they may be curious about how to lower the urea and creatinine in their blood.
Why patients have high creatinine and urea?
Urea is the metabolic waste of protein, and creatinine is the product of muscles. They are harmful to body health. While kidney has the function of filtrating wastes and toxins out of our body, and in normal condition, creatinine and urea will be excreted out, and the levels of urea and creatinine in blood keep in their stable ranges.
While to patients with kidney disease, their kidney structure is damaged, and their kidneys can not excrete these wastes in their blood out normally. Thereby, these substances will accumulate in their blood, and patients will have high levels of them.
What can patients do to lower their high urea and creatinine?
To lower patients’ high creatinine, the most direct way may be that they should reduce their meat intake and avoid take vigorous exercise, because creatinine is the metabolic waste of muscle. While these measures are very effective in controlling the creatinine level.
To lower the high urea level, patients should take less amount of protein, because urea is the metabolic product of protein. On the other hand, protein is an important nutrient of body, so the necessary amount should be guaranteed, and it it important for patients to take high-quality protein.
As we know, the root of these wastes’ accumulation in blood is caused by patients’ kidney damage, so to improve patients’ condition throughly, patients should improve their kidney function.
To improve their kidney function, patients should take measures in their lifestyle and treatment. In patients’ lifestyle, patients’ life habit and diet can make a significant influence in their health condition. Thereby, patients should make themselves form good life habits, like do appropriate amount of exercise, keep good emotion, have regular rest, and so on. In their diet, patients should consult the doctor and nutritionist’s advices in making their eating plan.
While in their treatment, western medicine is good at symptomatic treatment, so it better for patients to use this therapy to treat their complications and symptoms. While Chinese herbal medicine is good at treating disease systematically, and it is also good at improving patients’ self-repairing ability, which is beneficial to improve patients’ kidney function and overall health. Thereby, it is better for patients to accept the treatment which combines western medicine with traditional chinese medicine.
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