Whether or not treatment is needed for a mildly high creatinine level depends mainly on the cause of the elevated creatinine. If it is caused by physiological reasons such as high muscle mass or eating more meat, creatinine may return to normal after adjusting lifestyle habits, and no treatment is needed at this time. If it is caused by acute kidney injury or chronic renal insufficiency, creatinine will need to be treated according to the cause.
1. Physiological reasons: some patients’ creatinine increase may be caused by their high muscle content, or eating more meat and exercising more, if there is no abnormality in urine routine and ultrasound of the urinary system, creatinine may return to normal after adjusting the lifestyle, and then treatment is not needed.
2. Pathologic causes:
(1) Acute kidney injury: acute kidney injury caused by various reasons leads to high creatinine, which needs to be treated according to the cause. For example, drug-induced acute kidney injury needs to stop using the relevant drugs, infections need to be treated with antibiotics and other drugs, and insufficient renal blood flow due to excessive blood loss needs to be treated with rehydration and other symptomatic treatments.
(2) Chronic renal insufficiency: such as hypertensive renal damage, gouty nephropathy and other causes of high creatinine, need to actively control blood pressure, blood uric acid, can use drugs to reduce creatinine, such as medicinal charcoal tablets, Haikun Kidney Xie and so on.
If the creatinine is found to be elevated, it is recommended to go to regular hospitals in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy under the guidance of the doctor.