What causes hypokalemia
Mostly seen in long-term fasting or less food, insufficient intake of potassium salt; a large number of vomiting, diarrhea and long-term application of diuretics such as tachyphylaxis, resulting in excessive discharge of potassium and caused. Clinical manifestations of neurological and muscular dysfunction as the main disease, the more and faster the loss of potassium or at the same time accompanied by increased concentration of na +, ca +, then the symptoms are more obvious, hypokalemia is often mixed with the symptoms of the primary disease, easy to delay the diagnosis, should be taken seriously. When intravenous potassium supplementation, the urine volume must be above 30ml/hour, do not be too fast or too much, and intravenous injection is strictly prohibited.
Symptoms of potassium deficiency:
1. Weakness of the limbs, flaccid paralysis, tendon reflexes are sluggish or disappeared, and respiratory distress in severe cases.
2. Indifference, dull gaze, drowsiness and confusion.
3. Nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, intestinal paralysis.
4. palpitations, arrhythmias.
The symptoms of potassium deficiency are common in young and middle-aged men, and there can be a family history of the disease, which is often induced by cold, satiety, and fatigue; it often develops acutely in the middle of the night, early in the morning, or after a nap, and in addition, strenuous exercise can cause a similar condition, and it can be recurrently episodic with the main manifestation of quadriplegia.