What Kinds of Foods Can Lower Your Creatinine

Creatinine level is the indicator of kidney function. When creatinine level increases, people begin to be anxious about their medical condition and seek ways to lower it. Once your creatinine rises, besides knowing about the associated knowledge about the problem, you are suggested to make a reasonable diet as for your specific conditions. Next the expert introduce to us what kinds of foods are good for our health and what kinds of foods we should avoid eating

What kinds of foods should not to be eaten? 

Generally speaking, you are should keep low-salt diet, and no more than 3gram salt intake is better. The foods high in potassium should avoid to be eaten in case of hyperkalemia. This kind of foods includes potatoes, celery, beans and beans products and bananas and so on. The foods high in protein are also not better for your health, for the excess of the protein intake may put more extra pressure on your kidneys. But it doesn’t mean you are not allowed to eat a few of protein at all. Due to the decrease of the renal function, some of the protein that should stay in the blood is removed out of the body, so you need to eat something to make up for the loss of the protein. Limited high quality protein intake is necessary for your health and egg white，fish, lean and milk are suitable for your diet. At last, you’d better keep a low-fat diet. You’d better not to eat some fried or greasy foods abundant in saturated fatty acid, for it would get the renal function worse than before.

To high creatinine level which caused from diabetic nephropathy, it is better to stay away from fruits because most fruits taste sweet and contains rich monosaccharide or disaccharide, which can rise the blood glucose in short time. Apple is one of the few fruit which are low in sugar, and the sugar in it won’t be absorbed very fast, it is the fruit that favorable to most patients with kidney diseases.

Creatinine is actually created in your body, when muscle cells process creatine for energy. Strenuous exercise or muscle strain causes muscle cells to use more creatine and floods the blood with creatinine. It is the job of the kidneys to clear the excess creatinine from the blood. Having higher than normal creatinine levels is a sign that the kidneys are not functioning properly and usually means that further testing is necessary to rule out kidney disease or more serious problems.