Can excessive calcium supplement lead to hypercalcemia

summary

Hypercalcemia is a common disease in life, which mainly refers to the abnormal increase of serum calcium concentration. Hypercalcemia is mainly divided into PTH dependent hypercalcemia and non PTH dependent hypercalcemia. If the phenomenon of hypercalcemia is more serious, improper treatment can easily cause life-threatening. Hypercalcemia can be divided into mild hypercalcemia, moderate hypercalcemia and severe hypercalcemia. Patients often have some doubts, such as excessive calcium can cause hypercalcemia and so on.

Can excessive calcium supplement lead to hypercalcemia

First: mild hypercalcemia patients generally feel fatigue, tiredness, indifference and other phenomena; severe hypercalcemia patients are prone to myasthenia, headache, depression, more easily excited, some language barriers and other symptoms. Some patients are also prone to elevated blood pressure, a variety of arrhythmias, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and other phenomena.

Second: Patients with hypercalcemia are prone to some complications, such as polyuria, thirst, reversible decline of renal function, poisoning and so on. PTH dependent hypercalcemia is generally caused by hyperthyroidism and family heredity; non PTH hypercalcemia is mainly caused by vitamin D poisoning and malignant tumor.

Third: whether excessive calcium supplementation can cause hypercalcemia, in fact, excessive calcium supplementation may cause hypercalcemia. In life, many people buy their own calcium tablets to eat, but in fact, the effect of calcium supplement can only appear under the promotion of certain exercise, and if they do not exercise, they are likely to have hypercalcemia.

matters needing attention

Patients with hypercalcemia in the daily diet to pay attention to, must be low calcium diet, usually drink more water, eat more plant food. Try to light diet, do not eat some spicy and stimulating food. Proper exercise and so on.