High Serum Creatinine in Diabetic Nephropathy Patients

If I am a Diabetic Kidney Disease patients with high serum creatinine whether I am dangerous?I think most Diabetic Nephropathy Patients cares this problem. So Let us Know some knowledge about high serum creatinine in Diabetic Nephropathy Patients.
For Diabetics, high serum creatinine indicates more than half of your kidney function has been lost. Why?Our kidneys have strong compensated abilities. At initial time, when a small part of renal intrinsic cells are damaged, the remaining normal kidney units can work in a compensated way to excrete waste products, including serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen. Only when half of your kidney function are severely impaired, will high serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen arise. So, high serum creatinine is a signal that your kidneys are severely injured. If treatment is not adopted, more and more kidney units will get lost, which is accompanied by severer external manifestations and complications in diabetics.
What′s dangerous is actually systemic disorder that comes along with high serum creatinine. As kidney function drops severely, normal kidney functions of filtrating blood, excreting waste product, secreting hormones and regulating acid-base are all no longer be performed properly, which is rather annoying and can be life-threatening. Severe complications that comes together with high serum creatinine mainly include:

1. Erythrocyte Imbalance

When kidneys are severely injured, normal erythrocyte balance is turned into a mass, causing metabolic disorders of sodium, potassium or phosphorus inside the body. Sodium retention can cause symptoms such as swelling, high blood pressure and even short beath. The severe result of high blood potassium is sudden cardiac arrest, while low potassium(as a result of vomiting, diuretics and renal tubule damage) can present symptoms such as weakness, sleepiness and abdominal distension and so on.
2. As wastes(including urea nitrogen and serum creatinine) pile up in the kidneys, loss of appetite, lethargy and poor appetite become apparent.
3. Metabolic acidosis or increased acidity of the body, which is due to the inability to manufacture bicarbonate, will alter enzyme and oxygen metabolism, causing organ failure.
Besides the above, for Diabetics with high serum creatinine level, threatens  can also com from complications of Diabetes and dialysis. As Diabetes have low immunity and low resistance to bacteria, even a slight cold can be life threatening.
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