What should I eat if my creatinine is low?

Good daily living habits are the prerequisite for preventing diseases. Especially after becoming ill, you should reflect on whether your lifestyle is healthy. Nowadays, many people like to eat fast food, stay up late, and don’t like to exercise, which poses health risks to the body. When we detect that the creatinine value is low, what should we eat to regulate it?

Creatinine is divided into serum creatinine and urine creatinine. The reference value is 7000-10000 μgol/L. The normal value of blood creatinine is between 44 and 133 umol/L. Different hospitals use different test reagents, and their normal ranges vary slightly. When blood creatinine exceeds 133 umol/L, it means that the kidneys are damaged, the kidney's detoxification function is impaired, and toxins in the body cannot be effectively excreted, which means that the condition has developed into renal insufficiency. Diet needs special attention at this stage.

What should not be eaten if creatinine is high? What can I eat?

Dietary principles for high creatinine: basically maintain protein metabolism balance, and keep serum urea nitrogen at a low level to improve acid-base, water-electrolyte disorders; protect residual renal units and delay the progression of renal failure.

1. Low protein: Adjust protein intake according to the degree of renal damage and doctor's advice. Limit protein intake and increase the proportion of high-quality protein. That is, animal protein containing essential amino acids should account for 50% to 70%. Protein-containing foods should be cooked more by steaming or soup, and less by frying.

Recommended foods: eggs, crucian carp, lean meat, chicken, milk and other high-quality proteins.

Taboo foods: beans and their products, nuts such as peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, almonds and other foods high in plant protein.

2. High vitamins: Patients should pay attention to supplementing vitamins in their diet, especially B vitamins, vitamin C, folic acid and other foods.

Recommended foods: fresh vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, rapeseed, leeks, citrus, and hawthorn.

3. High carbohydrate intake: Try to choose starchy foods that are low in protein, such as lotus root powder, water chestnuts, pumpkin, water chestnut powder, etc.

4. Amount of water intake: If there is no edema and blood pressure is not high, you can drink more water to make the urine volume reach more than 2500 ml. If there is edema, you should reduce the amount of water you drink and measure your intake and output.

5. Low-phosphorus diet: Taboo foods: Foods rich in phosphorus, such as egg yolks, animal offal, brain, bone marrow, etc.; generally lean meat and fish can be boiled in water and the soup can be removed before eating.

The diet of each patient with chronic renal insufficiency varies depending on each person's indicators, symptoms, and degree of renal impairment. Click here to obtain the contact information of a professional nephrologist and receive one-on-one dietary guidance.

6. Limit sodium and potassium: People with edema and hypertension need a low-salt (3 grams of salt per day) or salt-free diet; when urine volume decreases (<1000 ml/day), blood potassium rises, and a low-potassium diet should be maintained.

Taboo foods: bananas, peaches, apricots, soy sauce, MSG, potatoes, yam, taro, cauliflower, magnolia slices, mustard tuber, winter vegetables, dried radish, mushrooms, fungus, white fungus and other high-potassium foods.