The Critical Value for Creatinine
When people are tested out high creatinine level, most of them want to know what is the critical value for creatinine level. Since serum creatinine level is one indicator of kidney function, too high creatinine level may be an alarming sign. Do you know the answer?
Firstly, we should know the generation of creatinine.
Creatinine is one muscular metabolic product. It is one waste product and excreted out of the body via kidneys. Regardless of age, gender, weight and race, creatinine ranges stably, if kidneys can work normally. Generally speaking, creatinine level won’t be higher than the normal unless more than half of kidney functioning tissues are damaged.
What is critical value for creatinine?
Critical creatinine level means it will be life-threatening if left untreated, and the answer should depend on patients’ illness condition. If you have high creatinine level, you should firstly get an overview of your illness condition and then find out the answer from the following article.
If you don’t have any emergency issues, you don’t need to worry even with creatinine 8.
In China, chronic kidney disease is divided into four stages according to serum creatinine. When creatinine level is 8.0mg/dl or higher, they are recommended to begin dialysis for cleansing their internal environment, lowering high creatinine level and protecting their kidney function.
If you have some severe problem, the critical creatinine value may come down to 5.
Severe swelling, high blood pressure resistent to medications, too high potassium level, lung swelling, etc, all are life-threatening problems. If you have one of these symptoms or your kidney disease is due to long-term diabetes, you must be suggested to begin dialysis earlier.
Now, we have known the general dangerous creatinine level and the importance to control creatinine level timely. Of course, dialysis is only one therapy to lower high creatinine level. If you want to get some natural or home remedies, you can leave a message below to us. We are glad to help you.
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