What Does High Creatinine Mean
Creatinine is a common standard to assess patient’s kidney function, and patient may know high creatinine is a dangerous sign. It is necessary for patient to have a better understanding about this aspect, which is helpful for patient to deal with his condition.
What is creatinine?
To learn what high creatinine means, it is necessary to understand what is creatinine first.
Creatinine is the metabolic product of muscle, and it is toxic to our body. Creatinine in our blood can be produced by our body muscles, and it can also be gotten from the meat we take, while creatinine gotten from the meat can make little influence to our serum creatinine level. Creatinine will be excreted out of body by kidney, and almost all creatinine produced by ourselves will be filtered out in the same day, so our serum creatinine level can stay in a stable range. Besides, little creatinine will be reabsorbed back to blood by kidney tubule, so it can be a measure to assess patient’s kidney condition.
What is high creatinine level?
There are obvious difference in the muscle volume between man and woman, so the normal creatinine level in man and in woman is also different. The normal creatinine level in man is 0.6~1.2 mg/dL, and the normal creatinine level in woman is 0.5~1.1 mg/dL. If people’s creatinine level is more than these values, people will be thought to have high creatinine, even if people’s creatinine level is just a little higher.
What does high creatinine mean?
Patient whose creatinine level is a little higher may think there is nothing serious about his condition. In fact, that may indicate he already has severe kidney damage.
Our kidneys have strong compensation, so patient will not have any problem caused by kidney damage until patient has kidney failure. What’s more, even patient already has kidney failure, his creatinine level will not has obvious rise due to the strong metabolic ability of kidney.
As a result, high creatinine may mean patient already has severe kidney damage, which is a very dangerous condition, so patient should make sure his condition as soon as possible, and take effective measures to cope with his condition.
In the end, if you still have any doubt in dealing with your condition, you can also contact us, and we will give you a detailed reply in time.
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