What Does Slight High Creatinine Level Mean
What doe slight high creatinine levels mean? Many patients with kidney disease may have concern in this aspect.
For patient with kidney disease, creatinine level is a common measure to assess his kidney condition. In fact, there may be nothing serious when patient have slight high creatinine level, but it can also indicate a severe kidney condition of patient with kidney disease.
What is creatinine?
Creatinine is the metabolic waste of muscle, and it is a toxin to body. Creatinine is a substance that will not be reabsorbed back to blood vessel, and almost all creatinine produced by our muscles will be excreted out by our kidneys in the same day. Creatinine level in our blood change in a stable range.
Slight creatinine level that is not severe:
In fact, many factors can influence patient’s serum creatinine level. For example, creatinine is the metabolic product of muscle, and patient’s creatinine level will rise if he take too much meat. Besides, if patient just taken strenuous exercise, which needs muscle to have much metabolism, and patient will also have high creatinine high creatinine level at this point. While in these conditions, patient’s high creatinine level can not exist for a long time, and it is not a dangerous sign.
Slight creatinine level that indicates severe kidney condition:
On the other hand, slight high creatinine can also indicate patient has severe kidney condition.
Our kidney has strong compensation, and there will not be any problem caused by kidney disease unless more than half kidney function is damaged. It is also to say one healthy kidney will be able to keep our body health. As a result, when patient has slight high creatinine level, it means more than half kidney function is already damaged. While patient’s high creatinine is persistent in this condition.
It is worthing mentioning that our serum creatinine level will not have obvious rise until less than one third kidney function is left, which is a very severe condition.
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