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What Causes High Creatinine And Potassium Levels?
Question: what can cause high Creatinine and an increase in Potassium levels
in blood?
in blood?
Brief Answer:
high creatinine, urea and potassium- kidney
Detailed Answer:
HI, thanks for using healthcare magic
Both the urea and creatinine values are above the upper limit of normal. This is normally a reflection of declining kidney function.
Decreased kidney function also causes an increase in potassium because it causes the kidney's to start to retain potassium.
There are other causes of increased creatinine such as a change in diet- using more animal protein
There are also some foods that contain a higher level of potassium but in most persons with normal function of the kidneys they do not affect the level.
When potassium is high, it is best to avoid some of these foods, examples are bananas, dates, butternut squash, figs, coconut water, baked beans
Some amount of decline in kidney function is normal with age and expected.
Your doctors may assess any medications that you may be using to determine if any would have any effect on the kidneys.
In addition, he or she may also suggest tight control of any risk factors for kidney disease such as blood sugar and blood pressure.
Tight control of these factors would prevent any further kidney damage.
Your kidney function would be monitored by blood tests.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any additional questions
high creatinine, urea and potassium- kidney
Detailed Answer:
HI, thanks for using healthcare magic
Both the urea and creatinine values are above the upper limit of normal. This is normally a reflection of declining kidney function.
Decreased kidney function also causes an increase in potassium because it causes the kidney's to start to retain potassium.
There are other causes of increased creatinine such as a change in diet- using more animal protein
There are also some foods that contain a higher level of potassium but in most persons with normal function of the kidneys they do not affect the level.
When potassium is high, it is best to avoid some of these foods, examples are bananas, dates, butternut squash, figs, coconut water, baked beans
Some amount of decline in kidney function is normal with age and expected.
Your doctors may assess any medications that you may be using to determine if any would have any effect on the kidneys.
In addition, he or she may also suggest tight control of any risk factors for kidney disease such as blood sugar and blood pressure.
Tight control of these factors would prevent any further kidney damage.
Your kidney function would be monitored by blood tests.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any additional questions
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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