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What Does My Below Creatinine Levels Suggest?

HI,my father have dibeties since 4 years . his serum creatinine 3.9 on 01 Oct 15 and Ertapenum injection for 14 days is going on from 01 Oct 15. And now his serum creatinine 3.18 on 11 Oct and Urine culture says no aerobic pyogenic organism grown after 48 hrs incubation at 37 degree celcius. what want to know does it mean?
Thu, 12 Nov 2015
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Hi,
Thanks for posting in HCM.
Your father, since he is a known diabetic, having creatinine of 3.9mg/dl is quite high. He has been given Ertapenem injection to treat infection of the kidneys, which could have caused renal impairment and caused raise in creatinine levels.
Even with treatment, his creatinine levels remains quite high at 3.18mg/dl.
Since the urine culture does not show any organism, it says that he is free of infection.
You need to periodically get his creatinine levels done to know weather it is decreasing towards normal or not. In case it remains high, he would be having risk of kidney failure due to acute insult to the kidneys. Hence, this entity needs to be taken care as he is diabetic.
He should keep his blood glucose under control and get attended for any acute infections promptly.
Hope the information provided would be helpful.
All the best.
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What Does My Below Creatinine Levels Suggest?

Hi, Thanks for posting in HCM. Your father, since he is a known diabetic, having creatinine of 3.9mg/dl is quite high. He has been given Ertapenem injection to treat infection of the kidneys, which could have caused renal impairment and caused raise in creatinine levels. Even with treatment, his creatinine levels remains quite high at 3.18mg/dl. Since the urine culture does not show any organism, it says that he is free of infection. You need to periodically get his creatinine levels done to know weather it is decreasing towards normal or not. In case it remains high, he would be having risk of kidney failure due to acute insult to the kidneys. Hence, this entity needs to be taken care as he is diabetic. He should keep his blood glucose under control and get attended for any acute infections promptly. Hope the information provided would be helpful. All the best.