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Home Remedy For High Creatinine Level


Home remedy can prove helpful for high creatinine level or kidney disease. Persistent high creatinine level usually indicates the kidney dysfunctions. Home remedy should benefit your impaired kidneys. Here are some home remedies for your reference.

 

 

Ligusticum Wallichii

 

 

Ligusticum Wallichii derives from the root of Szechwan Lovage Rhizome. It has been used to slow or halt the progress of renal failure. It is actually a powerful herb used for centuries for the treatment of high creatinine levels.

 

 

 

Nettles

 

Nettles are proved to be helpful to lower high creatinine levels. The nephrologist Tillotson made a experiment to show improvement of creatinine levels by the treatment of nettles, which can be a marker for disease progression. However, if you are on blood-thinning or taking medicines for high blood pressure, you should not try nettles at the same time.

 

 


Dandelion root

 

Dandelion root works as a natural diuretic which can inactive kidneys by increasing urination. This can help dilute the amount of creatinine in the body by increasing the output of the urinary waster at a faster rate.

 

 


Yin Yang Huo

 

This is also a kind of magic Chinese Herb, which can help lower the creatinine levels related to impaired kidneys. In addition, it also improves the condition of patients who are on hemodialysis.

 

 

Cinnamon

 

Cinnamon is a common spice for Chinese people when they are cooking. This special “spice” also is found to be a good home remedy for high creatinine levels. It helps regulate blood sugar, so it makes greater improvement for patients with diabetes or diabetic nephropathy.

 

Apart from these herbs, many other herbs also help improve your kidney functions so as to cleanse away your creatinine in the blood. Generally, the formula of herbs for high creatinine level will contain not only one herb. It is usually a conjunction of several herbs which can give your kidneys an all-side improvement. If you would like further herbs to increase your kidney function and reduce your high creatinine level as home remedy

 

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High Cholesterol Symptoms


Our body needs cholesterol but actually the need of cholesterol is already filled without additional food intake, because 80% cholesterol is synthesized in the liver and only 20% must be supplied from food. Unfortunately many people have hypercholesterolemia because of their lifestyle. Normally, reference range of cholesterol level is 160-200 mg/dL, and level more than 240 mg/dL is dangerous because it is a major risk factor for stroke and cardiovascular disease.

 




There are some high cholesterol symptoms:

 


► Pain or stiffness in the back of the head neck

 ► This stiffness is also up to shoulder

 ► Leg swelling

 ► Easy to accomplish

 ► Easy sleepy

 


There are 7 major causes of high cholesterol symptoms :

 


1. Daily food

 2. Body weight, especially obesity

 3. Sedentary living

 4. Certain age

 5. Congenital disorder of cholesterol metabolism

 6. Family history of hypercholesterol

 7. Smoking

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Life cycle of Malaria

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Signs of Sepsis: Be on Guard


 

As an emergency medicine physician I see many patients presenting with fever, cough and varying degrees of feeling tired and wiped out. The great majority of these patients are not very ill and can be discharged home simply with something for their fever such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin/Advil). But hiding amongst the weeds is a serious killer named sepsis, which early in its presentation can appear like a run of the mill mild case of the flu.

Sepsis is an overwhelming infection that can affect multiple parts of the body and in its most severe form can result in multiple organ failure and death. Sepsis is often caused by the body’s response to a bacterial infection, but can also be from a viral, parasitic or fungal infection as well. In essence your body is trying to fight the infection by going into overdrive. This reaction from your body initiates inflammation, blood clotting, and multiple organ dysfunction. Shockingly common medical conditions can lead to sepsis such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, ear infections or surgery.

 

The Annals of Emergency Medicine rank sepsis as a killer. More people suffer from severe sepsis than congestive heart failure, breast cancer, colon cancer and AIDS combined. This medical condition kills more Americans than heart attacks.

 

Healthcare providers diagnose sepsis using a two-step process. First they identify or suspect the patient has an infection. This is performed by doing a history and physical and can be confirmed through simple tests such as a urine test or chest x-ray. Second they identify two Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria or SIRS. The SIRS criteria for adults is listed below:

 Temperature greater than 38 C (100.4 F) or lower than 36 C (96 F)

 Pulse greater than 90 beats per minute

 Respiratory rate greater than 20 breaths per minute

 White blood cell count less than 4,000 or greater than 12,000 or greater than 10% bands

 

Once sepsis is identified more extensive treatment is needed and further studies are performed to identify which organ systems are involved such as the lungs, heart, kidneys, or brain. Identifying sepsis early is crucial since many studies have shown that early aggressive treatment such as intravenous fluids and broad-spectrum antibiotics can decrease the risk of death by one half. Anytime you have flu like symptoms or an infection be on guard for sepsis.

 

 

 

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Which blood group do you have ???

 

INTERESTING RESEARCH ABOUT ALL EIGHT (8) BLOOD GROUPS :

 

A (+): Good Leadership.

 A (-): Hardworking.

 B (+): Can Give Up [Sacrifice] For Others.

 B (-): Non-flexible,Selfish & Sadistic.

 O (+): Born to Help.

 0 (-): Narrow minded.

 AB (+): Very Difficult to Understand.

 AB (-): Sharp & Intelligent.

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 -> Every year our nation requires about 4 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 40 Lakh units of blood are available.

 -> The gift of blood is the gift of life. There is no substitute for human blood.

 -> Every two seconds someone needs blood.

 -> More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day.

 -> A total of 30 million blood components are transfused each year.

 -> The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 pints.

 -> The blood type most often requested by hospitals is Type O.

 -> Sickle cell patients can require frequent blood transfusions throughout their lives.

 -> More than 1 million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy treatment.

 -> A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood

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 The large number of bulky, sticky cells in blood has complex effects on blood flow, but researchers have thought that the liquid portion of blood (called plasma) was an ordinary fluid. Now experiments described that even plasma is slightly springy, like a solid, and therefore not ordinary. This so-called elasticity of plasma could be important for modeling blood flow in the tiniest vessels and for developing substitutes that precisely match blood’s properties.