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Bactrim & elevated creatinine by Matt S. Posted Mon 08 Dec 2008 12:00am The antibiotic Bactrim is frequently associated with an increase in creatinine shortly after starting it. While Bactrim is a not uncommon cause of acute interstitial nephritis (AIN), the most frequent reason for a Bactrim-associated creatinine increase is actually artifactual one. Bactrim inhibits a particular cationic transporter in the pro ... Read on »

Creatinine by Lauren B. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 27 Aug 2008 8:33am Creatinine is a product that forms when creatine phosphate, a component of muscle tissue, is broken down. As this creatinine builds up in the blood, it is filtered into the urine by the kidneys. If the kidney function has been impaired by strong medications, creatinine levels will increase in the blood, due to decreased excretion of creatinine ... Read on »

What Kind Of Damage Happens To Your Body After You Do A Hard Workout, Triathlon or Marathon? by bengreenfield Facebook

Posted Thu 16 May 2013 10:06pm Have you ever wondered what your body looks like on the inside after you do a hard workout, triathlon or marathon? I decided to test it. Here’s how: I did back-to-back triathlons on one of the world’s toughest race courses (the Wildflower triathlon ). This brutal protocol consisted of a Half-Ironman on the first day, followed by a ... Read on »

Creatinine clearance versus creatinine by Margaret Patient Expert

Posted Sat 08 Aug 2009 12:34am I went to see my family doctor earlier today. There I was, all concerned about my high creatinine clearance result, but he explained to me that it was a GOOD thing. Eh? Oh yes, it turns out that I had mixed up serum creatinine and creatinine clearance, duuuh…Hmmm, well, as George Bernard Shaw said, A life spent [...] Read on »

Is cystatin C the next creatinine? by Matt S. Posted Sun 04 Oct 2009 12:00am As we all know, there are significant limitations to the use of creatinine as an estimate of GFR. Creatinine is freely filtered at the glomerulus, but in addition is also secreted to some degree, meaning that creatinine clearance can overestimate GFR. Furthermore, since creatinine is produced by muscle, individuals with high muscle mass may ... Read on »

Unfairly condemned Creatinine by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 04 Dec 2011 7:59pm Ask any dialysis patient worth the little salt he eats which is the blood test he would most commonly associate with kidney disease and chances are that the answer would be creatinine. From the time you get diagnosed, everyone talks about creatinine. "How much is your creatinine?" is a question I have been asked the most, even more than, "What ... Read on »

Fw: Hot Topics at The Body's "Ask the Experts" Forums by Nelson V. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 03 May 2011 12:00am From: "News at The Body" <update@news.thebody.com> Date: 03 May 2011 16:43:34 -0400 To: <nelsonvergel@yahoo.com> ReplyTo: "News at The Body" <update@news.thebody.com> Subject: Hot Topics at The Body's "Ask the Experts" Forums If you have trouble reading this e-mail, you can see the online version at: www.thebo ... Read on »

Leeching of vegetables - a great way to reduce your Potassium intake by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:39pm People lucky enough to be on dialysis must watch their Potassium intake. Just imagine. Life becomes so interesting with these kinds of rules, right? And it can be an edge-of -the-seat thriller if you go above the normal limit of Potassium in the blood. You can become breathless, your heartbeat can become irregular and in extreme cases you may a ... Read on »

Living by the Numbers by Mary Jane Goodman-Giddens by Duane P. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 01 Mar 2013 3:42pm This post comes from Mary Jane Goodman-Giddens, a Lupus Foundation of America supporter and activist. She is a mother of six, two of whom are living with lupus. This has been reposted with permission from Mary Jane's blog about her son Ben's journey with lupus, Laugh By Laugh, Hour By Hour. To read more, please visit her website at bensstory.org ... Read on »

February 8, 2011 by Michael B. Posted Tue 08 Feb 2011 1:30pm By all indications, one of the necessary evils of dealing with any disease is the constant and consistent need for blood work. To break it down to the simplest terms, blood work is often what is used to confirm or refute an initial diagnosis. If the diagnosis is confirmed, then this will, inevitably, lead to many, many more needle sticks. Of c ... Read on »