Diet Management to Lower High Creatinine Level

While what you eat can not change your creatinine value, a kidney friendly diet can prevent some of fatal complaints like heart failure, stroke etc.

There is no one particular diet for the patients with high creatinine. Personalized dietary recommendations should be given based on the lab results like blood pressure, blood glucose and levels of minerals etc.


Protein


The recommended protein intake has slight changes in patients. For the Diabetic Kidney Disease patients, they are recommended 0.8 g of protein per kg body weight a day. If they are a non-diabetic kidney disease patient, a slightly lower protein is suggested and they should keep protein intake at 0.6 g per kg body weight. For the patients on dialysis, they usually lose a large amount of nutrients during dialysis so the recommended protein intake is 1.2~1.3 g per kg body weight.


Sodium


One of the most important things the patients with high creatinine can do to preserve renal function is to control their blood pressure. High blood pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease is caused by the building up of sodium and fluid. Therefore, they are suggested to limit sodium intake to 2 grams a day.



Potassium

Elevated potassium levels can kill people with Chronic Kidney Disease. High levels can affect the nerve impulse, thus causing irregular heart beat and even heart failure which can threaten their life.


Phosphorus


Phosphorus level elevates in Chronic Kidney Disease for the kidney is no longer able to regulate phosphorus content in the blood. High phosphorus level is dangerous. It can cause hyperparathyroidism and cause blood to leach calcium from bones, resulting in itching and renal osteopathia. The common foods high in phosphorus include milk, milk products, chocolate, beer and organ meat.

In Chronic Renal Failure, many patients are suffering from anemia and hemoglobin levels are very low.Here are some tips can help the patients.


Nutrient supplementation


The production of hemoglobin needs a myriad of nutrients. However, in Chronic Renal Failure, the patients may experience poor appetite so they can not get nutrients intake like iron, floic acid, etc. Additionally, as multiple vital organs are involved, it can cause mineral metabolic disorders. These nutrients can aid the production of hemoglobin mainly including iron, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, floic acid and vitamin C. Here are the richest food sources the aforementioned nutrients.

Vitamin C: Guava, brussel sprouts, papayas, blackcurrants, cabbage, broccoli, strawberries, lychees

Iron: cereals, green the leafy vegetables, tomato paste.

Vitamin B6: Whole grains, oatmeal, tuna, avocado.

Folic acid: corn, bok choy, asparagus, pineapple, raspberry, strawberry.


Herbs


Herbs are rich in nutrients. They can enhance immunity and improve the health of red blood cells. These three herbs including withania, Dong Quai and nettle leaf have much benefits in improving hemoglobin levels. Also some activate substances can stimulate the DNA replication of impaired kidney tissues and regenerate renal functional cells. Consequently, the patients will have a remarkable improvement in renal function and the kidneys will produce more EPO than before.


Optimal treatment


The underlying cause of low hemoglobin in Chronic Renal Failure is attributed to impaired kidney function. Therefore, the treatment should focus on restoring the damaged kidneys. Stem Cell Therapy is the optimal treatment in restoring damaged cells, tissues and organs.

Natural Remedy for Low Creatinine Levels in Renal Failure

Renal Failure is gradual loss of the kidneys' ability to perform their functions of eliminating metabolic wastes from blood. When the patients begin to experience high creatinine level, most of kidney function is lost. This article will discuss the natural ways to lower creatinine in Chronic Renal Failure.

Medicated bath

Skin is a strong excretory system in human body. A lot of metabolic wastes like urea, salts etc are excreted by skin from body. Medicated bath can open up the pores, thereby, a mass of wastes material and toxins will be brought out of body through sweating.


Avoid strenuous physical activity

Creatinine is the end product of creatine existing in muscle. Strenuous physical activity can product the metabolism of creatine. Therefore, the patients with Chronic Renal Failure should choose moderate exercises like jogging, walking, bicycling, etc.


Low protein and vegetarian diet

Foods abundant of proteins, like meat, fish and bean and bean products should be limited to reduce the buildup of toxins like creatinine. Also it is reported that high consumption of red meat can put extra strain on kidneys. That is because the it is high in creatine which can be converted to the by-product creatinine.
Although a healthy diet can not cure Chronic Renal Failure, it is actually effective in slowing down its progress.


Control blood pressure


It is very important for the patients with Chronic Renal Failure to have a tight control on their blood pressure because it can cause more damage to the kidneys, resulting in an increase of dangerous blood toxins like creatinine.

Pyelonephritis and Chronic Renal Failure

Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection. It is usually caused by a bacterium called Escherichia coli. The infection usually occurs when bacteria from the urethra and bladder travel up your ureter to kidneys. If left uncontrolled, the infection will damage the kidneys in the following ways:

1. It can cause the inflammation in kidneys. If left untreated, the inflammatory response will attract more and more inflammatory factors to cause more severe damage to kidneys.

2. Pyelonephritis may cause retention of urine in bladder. The pressure in kidneys will increase significantly, thus causing compression to kidney tissues. If the kidney tissues and cells can not get insufficient blood, oxygen and nutrients, they will loss function gradually and finally complete Renal Failure.
Early inspection and treatment is particularly important to stop Plylonephritis from developing into Renal Failure. The following symptoms imply that you may be affected with the infection.

1. A fever
2. Shivering
3. Lower back pain
4. Fatigue
5. Vomiting
6. Increased urination

How to stop Pyelonephritis from progressing into Renal Failure?

Once the infection occurs, a proper treatment is quite necessary.
1. The patients are recommended to drink more water to produce more urine. In this way, a part of bacteria will be washed out of body by urine.
2. Usually the patients are prescribed antibiotics to control the infection. By this way, it can prevent the spreading of the infection effectively.

Kidney Cancer Symptoms

Kidney Cancer will present the following symptoms.

Hematuria

Hematuria refers to red blood cell loss in urine. It usually does not cause any pain or discomforts. Therefore, many people usually do not take its seriously. They do not go to see a doctor until frequent episodes occur. However, frequent episodes of hematuria prove that the cancer cells have damaged pelvis and renal calyce. So, if you have pink, red or cola colored urine for no clear reasons, you should go for further inspection.

Back pain

Back pain occurs just the ribs and it can last over time. The pain is caused by the stretching of renal capsule and or the enlarged tumor compress the surrounding nerve and muscle tissues. Usually, the patients just experience dull pain. However, occasionally, if the blood clot obstruct ureter, it can cause difficult urination thus causing severer pain.

Lump on back

With tumor continuous enlargement, the patients can touch a large lump on back.
In addition, Kidney Cancer presents some extrarenal symptoms such as fatigue, poor appetite, nausea, weight loss, intermittent fever etc.

The above article has introduced the main symptoms and manifestations of Kidney Cancer. If you have one or several symptoms above, you had better go to see a doctor at once. Early inspection and timely treatment is important in improving the prognosis of the disease.

Conventionally, medications, surgery and chemotherapy are mainly adopted to treat Kidney Cancer. These methods have certain effects in slowing the disease progression and extending life expectancy. However, these treatment methods only can remove the existed cancer tissues or restrain the cancer cells growth temporarily, but can not eliminate the cause of the disease at all.

Traditional Chinese Medicine And Kidney Cancer

Surgery is commonly adopted by people with Kidney Cancer. If the tumor is still small, they can take timely surgery to remove the tumor. However, the returning rate of the disease is quite high. That is because the tumor is removed, but the cancer cells still remain in body. If the cancer cells have metastasis or proliferation, it will cause the relapse of Kidney Cancer.


Traditional Chinese medicine is a new option for patients. It can be a good assistant therapy for conventional therapies like surgery and chemotherapy.


1. Traditional Chinese medicine can enhance the patients' immunity and induce the cancer cells apoptosis. This can prevent the relapse of the disease and the metastasis of cancer cells.


2. It can improve the success rate of surgery and reduce incidence of complications of surgery. If the patients are in remission after a period of chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine can consolidate curative effect and prevent the returning of the disease.


3. The conventional therapies can cause great invasive on body. Traditional Chinese medicines are herbs from the nature and they are totally free of adverse effects on body.


Both western therapies and traditional Chinese medicines have pros and cons. If these are combined well, it will certainly bring a remarkable curative effect to people with Kidney Cancer.

Immunotherapy for Kidney Cancer

Conventionally, Kidney Cancer is treated with the combination of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. These therapies can slow down the disease progression and prolong the patients' life span. However, surgery only can resect the existed large tumor, but is no useless for tumor cells.
 Chemotherapy and radiation not only can damage the tumor cells, but also can impair the healthy cells in body. That is why the patients develop

so many complaints. Also, with the proliferation of tumor cells, it is not enough to kill the cells by chemotherapy or radiation along.


Immunotherapy is a new therapy to treat Kidney Cancer. The concept of immunotherapy is based on the body's natural defense system, which protects us against a variety of diseases. It can treat disease by initiating or suppressing a immune response.


In treating Kidney Cancer, immunotherapy can harness and enhance the patients' immune system and regain its ability in defending against malignant kidney tumors.


Moreover, immunotherapy can stop the production of tumor cells by regulating immune system. Therefore, it can treat Kidney Cancer completely.