Can eat potassium piece cause blood pressure low

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Potassium tablet is a kind of medicine, in peacetime, some friends will use it, so, can eating potassium tablet cause hypotension? Let's talk about it.

Can eat potassium piece cause blood pressure low

First of all, potassium tablets were well tolerated, the adverse reactions were mild and transient, and there were no cases requiring termination of treatment due to adverse drug reactions. After overdose, there will be abnormal physical performance, so we must pay attention to the dosage of drugs to prevent overdose.

Secondly, the most likely manifestations of potassium overdose will be hypotension and tachycardia. Due to the excitation of parasympathetic nerve (vagus nerve), bradycardia may occur, and potassium tablets and their active metabolites can not be removed by hemodialysis. If you take excessive potassium tablets and develop symptomatic hypotension, supportive therapy should be given.

Finally, oral potassium tablets may have gastrointestinal irritation symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, pharyngeal discomfort, chest pain (esophageal irritation), abdominal pain, diarrhea, and even peptic ulcer and bleeding. It is more likely to occur in patients with fasting, high dose and original gastrointestinal diseases. Hyperkalemia should be noticed when the original renal function is damaged.

matters needing attention

In the usual use of drugs, we must pay attention to, must be under the guidance of doctors for rational drug use, usually need us to improve the level of medication, reduce the cost of medication, to prevent the emergence of abnormal conditions.