What is the treatment of hypokalemia?
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Hypokalemia in clinic generally refers to the symptoms of serum potassium concentration lower than 3.5mmol/l. It is often called hypokalemia. However, the decrease of serum potassium concentration does not necessarily mean that the body has appeared the symptoms of hypokalemia, which can only indicate that the concentration of extracellular potassium has decreased, and the concentration of serum potassium does not necessarily decrease when the whole body lacks potassium. What is the treatment of hypokalemia? Now let me tell you something.
What is the treatment of hypokalemia?
The common causes of hypokalemia are: decrease of daily potassium intake; Potassium is lost through skin, gastrointestinal tract and kidney; In addition, the poisoning of crude cotton oil can also cause hypokalemia.
When the patient has acute hypokalemia, the patient should be given emergency potassium supplement treatment, and the supplement should be based on the patient's own blood potassium situation. Generally, when the patient's blood potassium is 3.5 ~ 4mmol / L, there is no need for additional potassium supplement, but the patient needs to be told to eat more potassium containing food, such as fresh vegetables, fruits and meat.
When the patient's blood potassium is in the range of 3.0 ~ 3.5mmol/l, it should be determined whether to supplement potassium according to the specific situation of the patient. If the patient has suffered from myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease or is taking digitalis for heart failure, then the patient should be given potassium supplement.
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Usually, when patients have corresponding symptoms of digestive system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system and urinary system, they should go to the hospital for examination of serum potassium, urinary potassium concentration and electrocardiogram, timely determine whether it is hypokalemia and determine the cause of hypokalemia, carry out symptomatic treatment, and usually eat more vegetables and fruits containing potassium.
