What Can Cause High Levels Of Creatinine In Blood
Creatinine level has significant meaning in diagnosing patient’s kidney condition, and high creatinine often indicate severe damage in patient’s kidney.
Creatinine is a product which should be filtrated out by kidney, and it is toxic to our body. High creatinine is a standard which is very sensitive to patients with kidney disease, so what can cause high levels of creatinine in blood?
In fact, the level of creatinine in our body can be affected by many factors, and not all conditions of high creatinine are dangerous, but it is dangerous only when it is caused by kidney damage.
Why is it dangerous when high creatinine is caused by kidney damage?
Creatinine needs to be filtrated out by kidney, so when patient’s kidney function is damaged severely, there will be a large amount of creatinine accumulating in patient’s body, which will cause high patient’s creatinine level to be higher than normal.
As a matter of fact, high creatinine caused by kidney damage will be dangerous, because half normal kidney function will be able to guarantee our body health, so it means more than half normal kidney function has already been damaged when patient has high creatinine.
As we can imagine, high creatinine caused by kidney damage will be persistent.
Other causes of high creatinine in blood:
Creatinine in our body can be affected by many factors, so patient’s creatinine may be high even it is not caused by kidney damage.
·Exercise: creatinine is a breakdown of muscle, so when patient take strenuous exercise, that can also cause high creatinine.
·Diet: if patient takes much meat, it can also cause creatinine level to rise.
·Tiredness: if people do not care their life details, or they have tiredness, they may also have high creatinine.
·Dehydration: if patient may have dehydration due to sweating or vomiting, and that can also make patient’s creatinine level to be high.
·Others: for patients with renal insufficiency, when they have fever, infection, etc, their creatinine level will also rise. And if patient take nephrotoxicity drugs, that can also cause severe kidney damage, and sometimes high creatinine caused by this factor is irreversible.
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