Creatinine usually has no effect on the body, but elevated creatinine may be harmful.
Creatinine is a product of the body’s muscle metabolism, and creatinine is excreted through glomerular filtration. It can reflect renal function, and it is a small molecule toxin that usually has little effect on the body. Elevated creatinine can be divided into physiological and pathologic, and pathologic elevation is harmful to human body and needs timely treatment.
1. Physiological: The normal value of blood creatinine is about 53-106μmol/L for men and 44-97μmol/L for women, which may increase after strenuous exercise or eating a large amount of high-protein food, and usually return to normal after resting and controlling the diet, and there is no need for special treatment.
2. Pathologic: seen in chronic nephritis, chronic renal failure, lupus nephritis, etc., need timely treatment.
If you find elevated creatinine, you should go to the hospital in time to see a professional doctor to clarify the cause and get timely treatment.