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17/11/2018

8 Home Remedies to Naturally Lower Your Creatinine Levels

Creatinine is a blood chemical waste product generated when you use your muscles. Eating lots of protein may also produce small amounts.

Your bloodstream transports creatinine to your kidneys, where your body filters it out through your urine. But if your kidneys aren’t working properly, the level of creatinine in your blood can build up. This can lead to uremia, a life-threatening disorder.

Your body needs clean blood to function optimally. The best way to lower your creatinine levels is to treat the underlying cause. Dialysis is a common treatment for kidney issues. It’s an important medical procedure that’s used when your kidneys can’t remove waste products from your body. But you can complement these treatments with different remedies and lifestyle changes to lower your creatinine.

Talk about ways to help lower your creatinine levels, including these eight natural options:

1. Cut back on vigorous exercise

Exercise is usually a good thing, but overdoing it may spike your creatinine levels. Since muscle metabolism produces creatinine, overusing muscle groups through strenuous activity might raise levels.

One study indicates that intense exercise increases creatinine levels as a response to increased muscle breakdown, at least temporarily.

2. Don’t take supplements containing creatine

Creatine is a natural compound made in your liver. It’s transported to your muscles where it’s used for energy. Unused creatine not used as energy converts into creatinine, a waste product.

In addition to its natural form, creatine is also available as an oral supplement. Some athletes use these supplements to help enhance athletic performance. Just like natural creatine, supplements containing this substance produce creatinine.

Anyone wishing to reduce creatinine levels should not take creatine supplements. There is limited research on creatine supplements and their overall safety.

3. Reduce your protein intake

Research shows eating large amounts of protein can increase creatinine levels, at least temporarily. Cooked red meat in particular can affect creatinine. The heat from cooking causes creatine found in meat to produce creatinine.

People with diets very high in red meat or other protein sources, including dairy products, may have higher creatinine levels than people who eat less of those foods. If you eat lots of red meat, switch to more vegetable-based dishes. Try swapping out beef burgers for vegetable patties, hearty vegetable stew, or lentil soup.

4. Eat more fiber

More research is needed to determine the effect dietary fiber has on creatinine levels. But one study showed significant reductions in creatinine levels in people with chronic kidney disease who increased their fiber intake.

Fiber can be found in many foods, including:

fruits、vegetables、whole grains、legumes

5. Talk to your doctor about how much fluid you should drink

Dehydration can raise creatinine levels. Fluid intake can also be an issue for some people who have kidney disease. Talk to your doctor about how much water and other fluids you should drink daily and when is best to drink them.

6. Try chitosan supplements

Chitosan is a dietary supplement mostly used by people hoping to lose weight or reduce cholesterol. There is some research indicating that chitosan may also be effective in reducing creatinine levels in people with renal failure.

7. Take WH30+

Many herbs are natural diuretics and may help some people reduce creatinine levels. However, conclusive scientific data is lacking on herbs and how effective they are in reducing creatinine levels.

One animal study showed improvement in creatinine levels in rats when they were treated with a Chinese herbal formula called WH30+.

8. Use salvia

In China people use salvia to treat renal failure. And a review of several studies indicated salvia may have a positive effect. But, salvia is a hallucinogen so it should be used very carefully.

Even common herbs can interfere with medications. It’s important to discuss your use of herbs, including herbal teas, with your doctor.

Other herbs to discuss with your doctor include:

stinging nettle (nettle leaf), chamomile, cinnamon, ginseng, dandelion root.

Before any dietary supplement, talk with your doctor. You’ll need to know how to take it and the appropriate dosage.

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16/11/2018

Diet tips to lower creatinine

There are several dietary changes a person can make to reduce creatinine levels, including

Reducing protein intake

Vegan sources of protein, including beans, nuts, soya milk, tofu, and vegetables.
Choosing plant sources of protein, such as beans, nuts, and tofu, may reduce creatinine levels.

Consuming too much protein can cause a temporary spike in creatinine levels, even in a person who is otherwise healthy. In someone who already has heightened creatinine levels, it can increase levels further.

Cooked red meat seems to be particularly troublesome. Red meat is the muscle tissue of the animal, which naturally contains creatine. Cooking this meat causes the creatine to break down into creatinine, so when a person eats the meat, their creatinine levels will rise.

People who regularly consume large quantities of protein may have higher creatinine levels in their body. A person can address this by reducing the amount of red meat and dairy products they consume, or by swapping them for vegetable proteins, such as beans.

Increasing dietary fiber

Most people know that eating fiber helps balance the digestive system, but fiber may also be beneficial for people reducing their creatinine levels.

Many plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, seeds, and whole grains contain fiber.

Being mindful of liquid intake

While too much fluid intake can be a problem for people with kidney disease, dehydration and lack of fluids can raise creatinine levels in the body. It is best for a person to work directly with their healthcare practitioner to determine the amount of liquid they should drink.

If water is not enjoyable to drink, try adding a slice of lemon or cucumber to the water to make it more flavorful. Many people find they can increase their intake of liquids by drinking herbal teas and green tea.

Considering chitosan supplements

Chitosan is an ingredient in a range of weight loss blends or supplements designed for cholesterol.

One study noted chitosan significantly reduced the creatinine in rats that had kidney failure.

Chitosan supplements may be a good choice for people looking to reduce their creatinine levels naturally, but it is always best to discuss the right options with a doctor before taking any supplement.

Avoiding creatine-based supplements

While some supplements can help lower creatinine levels, others may make it worse. For instance, many athletes and bodybuilders take supplements containing creatine to give their muscles more endurance.

Muscles use creatine for energy, but if it goes unused, it will get converted into creatinine.

People who have high creatinine levels should avoid creatine and creatine supplements.

We use Chinese medicine to treat kidney disease. It can help improve kidney function.

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15/11/2018

Low vs. high creatinine levels

The causes of low creatinine differ from the causes of high creatinine. Creatinine levels also play a role in assessing kidney function. When creatinine begins to accumulate in the body, doctors have to run tests to check for kidney problems.

Possible causes of a higher creatinine level include:

kidney damage or kidney failure
kidney infection
reduced blood flow to the kidneys
dehydration
If you have high creatinine levels, symptoms may include:

nausea
vomiting
fatigue
changes in urination
high blood pressure
chest pains
muscle cramps
How to diagnose low creatinine levels
Your doctor can use multiple tests to check your creatinine level. One option is a serum creatinine test, which measures the amount of creatinine in your bloodstream. Another option is a creatinine urine test.

If your lab results confirm a low creatinine level, your doctor may suggest more testing to rule out a muscular disease. This may include a muscle biopsy or a muscle enzyme test to check for muscle damage.

Treatment options for low creatinine

Treatment options for low creatinine depend on the underlying cause. If you have a muscular disease, treatment focuses on treating the related condition and reducing muscle pain, weakness, and degeneration. Options include corticosteroids to improve your muscle strength or therapy to improve your quality of life.

Low creatinine levels due to pregnancy should normalize after giving birth.

If you’re taking a medication that contributes to a lower level, talk to your doctor about adjusting your dosage or switching to another medication.

Low muscle mass treatments

If an underlying medical condition isn’t responsible for a reduction in muscle mass, medical treatment may not be necessary. But your doctor may recommend steps to increase your muscle mass and normalize your creatinine level.

Increasing your level of physical activity and doing strength training exercises a few days a week can increase muscle mass. Talk to your doctor before starting a new exercise program. You can try:

swimming
walking
biking
weight lifting
aerobics

If your doctor believes low muscle mass results from improper nutrition or extreme weight loss, adjust your diet. Make sure you’re eating five to six small, healthy meals per day. Include a mixture of fruits and vegetables as well as protein-rich foods.

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14/11/2018

13/11/2018

What Supplement or Medicines Help Reduce High Creatinine

High Creatinine Level is indeed a common symptom for patients with Kidney Failure or kidney disease. How to lower its level also becomes the common concerned question among patients. Here, we’d like to share some supplements and medications that can help reduce high creatinine level.

Vitamin C supplements

Different vitamins have different functions. As introduced by nephrologists, vitamin C is one nutrition that can help protect kidneys from further damage and lowering-creatinine property. This is because vitamin C is able to increase glomerular filtration rate. With the increase of GFR, more creatinine can be eliminated out of the body via urine. Vitamin C is commonly to see in fruits such as cranberry, kiwi fruit, pomegranate, and so on. If patients' potassium level is normal, they can consume more fruits.

Low-sodium diet

Excess sodium tends to cause or worsen fluid retention and high blood pressure, so as to aggravate patients’ illness condition. Therefore, a low-sodium diet is very necessary. Generally, the average of most low sodium diets is about 2 to 3g each day. Sodium needs to restrict more in some cases.

Chinese Herbal tea

Chinese herbal teas are made from natural herbs, so they are healthy drinks for patients with high creatinine level. Because some herbs can help increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and eliminate more creatinine. Corn silk, chai cinnamon tea, nettle leaf tea, dandelion root tea, etc all have the property of lowering creatinine level in the blood.

Chinese Osmotherapy

Chinese Osmotherapy is also called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which is a combination of Chinese herbs and western medicines. It is used externally which can avoid other organs and tissues’ damage. The active ingredients of the medicines are good for setting up a good blood environment inner the kidneys. In addition, it also can improve renal function by repairing kidney damage. Only renal function gets improvement from the root, can high creatinine level be lowered naturally.

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12/11/2018

After Creatinine Level Rises, These 4 Bad Habits Can Speed up Uremia

Serum creatinine level is known as an indicator light for uremia, and the higher the creatinine level, the closer they are to uremia. Therefore, many patients have been treating creatinine level as the core of treatment, and have even looked for a variety of methods for reducing creatinine. Some methods may temporarily bring down creatinine, but over time it will go up again, which troubles a lot of renal patients.

Why is creatinine level so difficult to reduce? What on earth goes wrong? Some patients may feel puzzled. In fact, creatinine is a product of muscle metabolism in the body. When the kidney is normal, it can be discharged from the body smoothly every day. When the renal function declines, the muscle still products the same amount of creatinine, but the kidney can not eliminate creatinine out, leading to the elevation of creatinine. Therefore, it is the renal function that causes the elevation of creatinine, and the treatment should pay attention to the protection of renal function. Only in this way can the effect of lowering creatinine be more obvious.

Although some patients attach great importance to the protection of renal function, they do not pay attention to their bad habits, which do not only damage kidneys, but also accelerate the arrival of renal failure.

Bad habit 1: Continue to eat a lot and drink a lot, especially the meat.

Increased creatinine is associated with eating too much meat. In order to reduce the burden of kidney metabolism after renal function damage, the principles of kidney diet should be strictly followed. However, some patients do not pay attention and still eat and drink a lot. They prefer to eat meat, especially red meat, like pork, mutton and beef, which can lead to the continuous rise of creatinine.

Bad habit 2: Repeated infections, and no attention to prevention and treatment

The occurrence of infectious diseases can also lead to increased creatinine. Common infections, such as respiratory tract infection, urinary system infection and oral infection, can lead to bacteria entering the blood and invading the kidney, aggravating the immune inflammatory response of the kidney, thereby aggravating the renal function damage and inducing the rise of creatinine. Some people neglect the prevention and treatment of infection, such as cold, periodontitis and kidney stones, which are common factors that aggravate the disease.

Bad habit 3: Drug abuse causes drug-induced kidney damage.

Kidney patients will be exposed to a large number of therapeutic drugs, some of which has nephrotoxicity such as antibiotics, antipyretic analgesics, a few Chinese herbal medicine, so when you use these medicines, you had better follow the instructions of doctors strictly. If you take them in large quantity, they can increase blood toxins and speed up kidney failure, leading to a surge in creatinine.

Bad habit 4: Excessive fatigue increases physical exhaustion.

The occurrence of kidney disease will lead to fatigue. Although rest can not help you get complete relief from fatigue, you should pay attention to rest. But some patients still maintain their previous bad habits after getting sick. They stay up late for a long time and are overworked, resulting in physical and mental fatigue, and their condition is getting worse and worse. Staying up is also not conductive to the metabolism of toxins, resulting in the accumulation of creatinine.

Now you know the 4 bad habits that can speed up uremia after creatinine level increases. Hope you change them and slow down the progression.

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11/11/2018

What Is Creatinine?

Creatinine is a chemical waste product in the blood that passes through the kidneys to be filtered and eliminated in urine. The chemical waste is a by-product of normal muscle function. The more muscle a person has, the more creatinine they produce. Levels of creatinine in the blood reflect both the amount of muscle a person has and their amount of kidney function.

Most men with normal kidney function have approximately 0.6 to 1.2 milligrams/deciliters (mg/dL) of creatinine. Most women with normal kidney function have between 0.5 to 1.1 mg/dL of creatinine. Women usually have lower creatinine levels than men because women, on average, have less muscle than men.

Other factors that may affect the level of creatinine in the blood include body size, activity level and medications.

Creatinine and chronic kidney disease

When there is kidney damage or kidney disease, and the kidneys are not able to filter waste efficiently, there will likely be a rise in creatinine levels in the blood. Dialysis is needed whenever kidney function is too low to maintain health. However, creatinine is just one of many factors considered when deciding whether or not to recommend dialysis treatment.

Symptoms of too little kidney function

Some people who have no symptoms of illness at all find out they have advance kidney disease when high creatinine levels are detected in routine blood tests. When signs of too little kidney function do arise, they may include loss of appetite, vomiting, itching, weakness and flu-like symptoms.

Swelling in the legs and shortness of breath may occur if water builds up in the body.

Creatinine tests

Creatinine can be tested in both the blood and in the urine. These tests can help evaluate kidney function.

Serum creatinine is a test that draws blood and sends it to a laboratory to be analyzed to find out how much creatinine is in the bloodstream.

Knowing your serum creatinine allows your doctor to calculate your creatinine level along with your age, gender and race, to determine your glomerular filtration rate (GFR). GFR is a measure of kidney function. If you know a serum creatinine level you can determine the stage of CKD using the DaVita GFR Calculator. A low GFR, just like an elevated serum creatinine, is not always evidence of kidney disease. Ask your doctor to help you interpret your results.

Creatinine clearance (Ccr or CrCl) measures how much creatinine is cleared out of the body, or how well kidneys filter waste. Creatinine clearance requires a combination of a urine test and blood test. Because the urine has to be collected over a period of 24 hours, the creatinine clearance is usually done after first evaluating the serum creatinine and calculating the GFR.

10/11/2018

What Are the Key Points of Chronic Nephritis Treatment

Chronic nephritis treatment is the problem that every patient cares about, but what are the key points of the treatment? A good and appropriate treatment regimen is really important.

First of all, we must be clear that the essence of chronic kidney disease is the damage to the kidney inherent cells. Due to renal ischemia and anoxia, a lot of protein and occult blood go out. Thereby the key of treatment lies in repairing the damaged cells.

Then why are cells cells damaged in chronic nephritis?

The accumulation of a large number of immune complexes result in renal ischemia and anoxia, leading to cell shrinkage and cell damage. The immune complexes consists of two forms:

1. The deposition of circulating immune complex.

2. The formation of in situ immune complex.

In the treatment of chronic nephritis, etiological treatment can be taken to repair the damaged glomeruli, in which Chinese medicine will have better curative effect. It can let the active ingredients of medicine reach nidus through oral medicine and external application to repair the damaged glomeruli so as to improve permeability of glomeruli and restore their filtration function.

What are the specific treatment options for chronic nephritis?

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has the function of two-way regulating immune function, protecting the damaged glomeruli from further immune-mediated injury, reduce infiltration of inflammatory cells, and the number of growth factors and chemokines, decrease inflammatory reaction and reverse their normal metabolic function.

What are the key points of chronic nephritis treatment? This treatment can repair the damaged kidney inherent cells, clear immune complexes, regulate internal environment and enhance immunity, thus controlling the illness condition and preventing it from relapse. Besides, you can take advantage of Toxin-Removing Treatment to set up a good body environment for kidney self-healing and other medication. After about one week’s treatment, you will see cotton-like substances appear in urine, which are those immune complexes and wastes being passed out. After about half month’s treatment, swelling, proteinuria, hematuria, high blood pressure, anemia, back pain and so on will get great relief. After about one month’s treatment, your disease will be under control, and renal function will get promoted.

09/11/2018

To Reduce Creatinine Level Effectively, You Should Treat it from the Root

Like urinary protein, creatinine is a topic that everyone enjoys talking about. Apart from the advice of doctors, many renal patients look for methods to lower creatinine. Although creatinine level can be reduced, it is not recommended. Because those methods can not treat high creatinine level from the root.

1. Water injection dilution

It is to dilute the blood by drinking or injecting a large amount of fluid so as to reduce the creatinine level.

2. To be vegetarian and not to do exercise

There are two sources of creatinine: exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous is the meat we eat. And endogenous is creatinine produced by our body.

Therefore, to be a vegetarian and not do exercises for long-term can reduce the source of creatinine and shrink muscles so as to decrease creatinine level.

3. To increase creatinine secretion

By taking propranolol, creatinine secretion in renal tubules can be increased and creatinine excretion can be promoted, thus leading to the decline of creatinine value.

4. To increase creatinine output

Such as Chinese medicine E***a Therapy. It can increase the output of creatinine through intestinal tract so as to reduce creatinine.

Although the above four methods can lead to a drop in creatinine, they can not reflect whether renal function is improved or not.

The correct way to reduce creatinine should be to remove toxins from the kidneys and the blood, prevent the kidney cells from continuing to die, and delay damage to kidney function.

How do you clean up toxins in your kidneys and blood?

The rise of creatinine indicates that renal function has been significantly impaired. At this time, taking western drugs such as niaoduqing and isxite can reduce the concentration of toxic substances in the blood and alleviate renal damage.

At the same time, the use of traditional Chinese medicine such as steam therapy and medicated bath can dredge blood in the whole body, promote blood microcirculation, remove immune compounds, and discharge toxins in the kidney so as to improve the ischemia and hypoxia of renal cells and protect the residual renal function. At this time, the reduction of creatinine is the result we can be convinced and expect!

No matter it is the elevation of creatinine or the increase of proteinuria, what we need to do is not only to see the number changes, but find out the root, and then treat it from the root. Only in this way can you reduce creatinine level and proteinuria successfully.

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08/11/2018

Can You Only Wait for Dialysis with High Creatinine Level

With high creatinine level, can you only wait for dialysis? Do not be silly, you have at least 3 ways to lower high creatinine level.

Creatinine is the byproduct of muscle contraction. Because our muscle mass is constant, and basically passed out of body through the kidneys, so creatinine is also called the gold standard for testing kidney function.

Creatinine value is different from proteinuria, occult blood and uric acid. Only a little higher should not be ignored.

Generally speaking, there are two causes of elevated creatinine level.

1. Because of eating too much meat or exercise too much, a lot of creatinine is produced so that glomeruli can not filter the excessive creatinine timely. As a result, some creatinine returns to the blood again, leading to elevation of creatinine. If so, it does not matter.

2. Kidney damage and impaired renal function. The glomeruli are not able to filter all of the creatinine, causing the elevation of creatinine. For kidney patients, their high creatinine level usually results from the second one. Mild kidney damage won’t cause high creatinine level. Only when kidney damage is over 50% can creatinine level elevate. Therefore, high creatinine level often indicates declined kidney function.

When creatinine level is over 707 umol/L, you should start dialysis to maintain life.

However, if your creatinine is just beyond the normal range and not go beyond 707, what to do? Only wait for it to go up to 707 and then start dialysis?

Do not be silly. There are at least 3 ways to help you.

1. Medicine

Such as medicinal charcoal, uremic clearance granule, etc. They help lower creatinine level to certain extent.

2. Dialysis

Here it is not hemodialysis nor peritoneal dialysis, but colon dialysis, also known as E***a Therapy. It takes advantage of colon to discharge toxins from body so as to achieve the goal of lowering creatinine level. Its effect is better than medicine.

3. Chinese medicine

In Chinese medicine, creatinine belongs to toxin. It is to promote qi to activate blood, and promote detoxification ability of human body, mainly via sweating and urination. Its effect depends not only on the patient’s illness condition and physical condition, but also on the good Chinese medicine.

Therefore, if your creatinine level increase, but it is not as high as the dialysis value, you can try the above 3 ways to lower it, and cooperate with proper diet and living habit. Do not only wait for dialysis.

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07/11/2018