Can You Lower Creatinine Level by Eating

All patients with Kidney Disease are familiar with creatinine level that can tell how well your kidneys work. The severer the renal damage is, the higher the creatinine level will be. Since creatinine is the metabolic products in body, is it possible for me to lower creatinine level by eating?

In order to make clear about this, we should know the specific causes of high creatinine level in Kidney Disease.

Creatinine is the byproducts of creatine existing in muscle. Healthy kidneys can discharge the creatinine out of body. Therefore, the creainine level can keep a stable level in blood. However, once the kidneys are damaged, they will fail their function in filtering blood. As a result, the metabolic products like creatinine, blood urine nitrogen and so on will accumulate in blood. The creatinine level will rise.

From the root cause of high creatinine level, it can be seen that repairing the damaged kidneys and improve its filtration function is the key to lowering creatinine. As long as we can restore the damaged kidneys, they will recover their normal function. As a result, the creatinine level will decrease afterwards. Therefore, for the patients with Kidney Disease, regulating diet can not lower creatinine at all.


Besides Kidney Disease, there are also some cases resulting in high creatinine level. If you have too much meat in a short time, it can cause creatinine level to increase temporarily. In this case, if you limit the meat intake, your creatinine level will decrease in a short time. Moreover, long time intensive exercise, muscle trauma and dehydration also can result in high creatinine. In these cases, the creatinine level will recover normal in a short time. If your creatinine level keeps high for a long time, you should go for test at once.