What happens when there is no proteinuria but the blood creatinine is high?

No proteinuria but elevated blood creatinine is divided into physiological and pathological. Physiological ones can be seen in strenuous exercise, consuming large amount of meat, etc. Pathological ones include acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
1. Physiological: blood creatinine may increase after strenuous exercise and eating a lot of meat, and it will usually return to normal after rest and diet control, and no special treatment is needed.
2. Pathologic: including acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, etc., which needs timely treatment. Acute kidney injury is divided into three kinds: pre-renal, renal and post-renal, with saving patients’ lives and restoring renal function as the main goal.
Chronic kidney disease takes slowing down the progression of kidney disease and controlling complications as the main components. The focus of treatment varies at different stages of the disease. Chronic kidney disease can be divided into 5 stages according to glomerular filtration rate.
Patients without proteinuria but with elevated blood creatinine should go to the hospital in time to have the cause clarified under the guidance of professional physicians and timely treatment.