What's The Meaning Of Low Creatinine Level
As we know, high creatinine level means patients already have severe kidney damage. But low creatinine level is another condition that can been seen in many patients’ lab test. Many people may doubt whether this condition is connected with kidney disease. Thereby, what is the meaning of low creatinine level?
Creatinine is the metabolic production of muscles, and it can be found in blood and urine, so the creatinine level may refer to the level of creatinine in blood or in urine. But in the diagnosis of kidney disease, the creatinine level is used to refer to the serum creatinine level. That is why people often connect its changes with kidney disease. While to people with low urine creatinine level, it may mean low serum creatinine level or low urine creatinine level.
If people have low urine level, this may mean patients have kidney damage. As we know, the creatinine produced will be transported to kidneys, and then it will be excreted by urine. If kidneys are damaged, it will not be filtered by kidney. Then the level of creatinine in urine will be low, which means its serum creatinine level will be high. At this time, patients should treat their disease seriously, because patients may be already in a severe stage of kidney disease. It is better for patients to follow their doctors’ advices and arrangements at this time. What’s more, it is important for patients to keep good emotion and positive attitude in this condition.
If patients have low serum creatinine level, this condition may be much better than the former, because lowe serum creatinine level has little clinic meaning to kidney disease. As we know, creatinine is the production of muscles, so if a person has less amount of muscles or he has little activity, he may have low creatinine level. Besides, this symptom may also appear if people have myodystrophy, anemia, amyotrophy, even when people have much urine. But as we have said, these conditions are much better than kidney failure.
In the end, if people find the creatinine level in their serum is low, they need not to worry if it has connection with kidney damage, and accepting right treatment is OK.
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