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Should You Increase Protein Intake with Raised Creatinine Level

Should You Increase Protein Intake with A Raised Creatinine Creatinine is a significant standard to assess patient’s kidney function, and when patients have high creatinine, it usually means patients have severe kidney damage.

As we know, protein is an important nutrient for our body health, and the shortage of protein can cause bad effects to our health. Thereby, for patients with raised creatinine, should they increase their protein intake to improve overall condition?

Should patients with raised creatinine increase their protein intake?

In fact, for patients with kidney disease, no matter how severe their conditions are, they should avoid taking much protein in their diet.

Protein is a substance which can produce lots of urea, and it should be filtrated out by kidney. Thereby, when patients take much excess protein in their diet, that can increase the workload of kidney, which is very likely to aggravate patient’s kidney damage. Besides, high urea level in body can cause patients to have many health problems, like itching, stomach pain, etc.

What is the recommended protein intake?

Even though much excess protein is harmful for patients with kidney disease and high creatinine, but it is an important nutrient for our body, so the essential protein intake should still be guaranteed.

In fact, for healthy people, the recommended protein intake is about 0.8g/kg per day. That is also the recommended value for patients with high creatinine, and patients should also regulate their protein intake according to their condition based on this value.

Besides, there are eight kinds of protein can not be produced by our body, which need to be gotten from the foods we take. And it is necessary for patients with high creatinine to take foods contain high-quality protein, like lean meat, fish, egg white, etc.

As we know, kidney disease is very dangerous, and patients should do what they can to improve their condition. If you have nay trouble in this process, you can contact our online experts, and we will do what we can to help you.

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