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After flushing with water how long before creatinine levels return?
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Huh?: Are you trying to lower your serum creatinine by drinking a lot of water? Unless you had bad prerenal azotemia from dehydration, it won't work. Elevated serum creatinine is a marker either for a person being well-muscled (athletic men are being sent in large numbers to nephrologists because of liability concerns) or having kidney damage. Don't treat a lab value.
Answered 3/12/2018
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