Why is high potassium level bad for you??
Answers: Hyperkalemia (potassium toxicity) is often asymptomatic. Occasionally, the following signs or symptoms may be seen:
Nausea
Irregular heartbeat (this may be an emergency symptom if prolonged or severe)
Cardiac Arrest (emergency!)
Slow, weak, or absent pulse (emergency symptom)
Compromised renal system
potassium toxicity !!!
Potassium must be present in the blood in roughly a 2:1 ratio to sodium, since their jobs are related and linked. Potassium permits the release of water from the interstitial tissues, while sodium causes the tissues to retain water. But TOO MUCH potassium causes the blood sugar to fall, and can create problems for diabetics and hypoglycemics. Potassium is also essential for the manufacture of growth protein and repair of damage to lean body mass caused by low-protein, low-fat dieting.
it can cause you to have a heart attack.
AAh Potassium,
If You Get Too Much
Most people can safely absorb up to 18 g of potassium a day. In fact, potassium toxicity--a condition called hyperkalemia--is very unlikely to occur unless you take potassium supplements inappropriately or your kidneys don't function properly. That's because the kidneys carefully monitor the balance of potassium in the body and excrete any excess.
However, if your kidneys are malfunctioning for some reason and can't properly process and eliminate potassium as a result, you may develop TOXIC levels of potassium in your bloodstream by taking supplements.
SIGNS of TOO MUCH POTASSIUM in your body include; muscle fatigue and an irregular heartbeat (cardiac arrhythmia).
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If You Get Too Little
A seriously low level of potassium--a condition called hypokalemia--is an uncommon event but can occur in people who lose large amounts of fluid from severe diarrhea, sweating, or vomiting. Hypokalemia occurs most frequently among people who take diuretics--medications that promote urination and thus lessen the volume of fluid in the body. Although these drugs often help in regulating blood pressure, they also promote the excretion of potassium through the urine, posing the risk for very low potassium levels and related muscle cramps and fatigue.
Some rare endocrine disorders (Liddle's syndrome, Bartter's syndrome, Fanconi's syndrome) are also associated with hypokalemia. In the rare case of a severe potassium deficiency, muscle weakness, muscle twitching, paralysis, and abnormal heart rhythms may develop.
It's important to remember that in virtually all cases of short-term diarrhea, potassium imbalances are slight and temporary. The body corrects itself without the need for any additional supplementation. It's only when diarrhea is prolonged, or accompanied by dehydration, that problems with low potassium can cause real complications that may require professionally administered intravenous fluids (possibly including potassium, sodium, and other electrolytes). Such treatment typically corrects the imbalance in a few hours.
Potassium ion is involved in sodium-potassium pump which is an active transport of ions across the cell membrane. This pump helps the nerve and muscle cells for the propagation of action potentials leading to nerve impulses and muscle contraction and the accumulation of sodium ions outside of the cell draws water out of the cell and thus enables it to maintain osmotic balance.
Three Na ions move out of the cell across the cell membrane in exchange of two K ions. Hign potassium level will cause an imbalance to this sodium-potassium pump which will result in the collapse of the nervous impulses and muscle contraction and high level of potassium will draw lots of water from the cell which results in damage.
Hope this will help u
Nausea
Irregular heartbeat (this may be an emergency symptom if prolonged or severe)
Cardiac Arrest (emergency!)
Slow, weak, or absent pulse (emergency symptom)
Compromised renal system
potassium toxicity !!!
Potassium must be present in the blood in roughly a 2:1 ratio to sodium, since their jobs are related and linked. Potassium permits the release of water from the interstitial tissues, while sodium causes the tissues to retain water. But TOO MUCH potassium causes the blood sugar to fall, and can create problems for diabetics and hypoglycemics. Potassium is also essential for the manufacture of growth protein and repair of damage to lean body mass caused by low-protein, low-fat dieting.
it can cause you to have a heart attack.
AAh Potassium,
If You Get Too Much
Most people can safely absorb up to 18 g of potassium a day. In fact, potassium toxicity--a condition called hyperkalemia--is very unlikely to occur unless you take potassium supplements inappropriately or your kidneys don't function properly. That's because the kidneys carefully monitor the balance of potassium in the body and excrete any excess.
However, if your kidneys are malfunctioning for some reason and can't properly process and eliminate potassium as a result, you may develop TOXIC levels of potassium in your bloodstream by taking supplements.
SIGNS of TOO MUCH POTASSIUM in your body include; muscle fatigue and an irregular heartbeat (cardiac arrhythmia).
--------------------------------------...
If You Get Too Little
A seriously low level of potassium--a condition called hypokalemia--is an uncommon event but can occur in people who lose large amounts of fluid from severe diarrhea, sweating, or vomiting. Hypokalemia occurs most frequently among people who take diuretics--medications that promote urination and thus lessen the volume of fluid in the body. Although these drugs often help in regulating blood pressure, they also promote the excretion of potassium through the urine, posing the risk for very low potassium levels and related muscle cramps and fatigue.
Some rare endocrine disorders (Liddle's syndrome, Bartter's syndrome, Fanconi's syndrome) are also associated with hypokalemia. In the rare case of a severe potassium deficiency, muscle weakness, muscle twitching, paralysis, and abnormal heart rhythms may develop.
It's important to remember that in virtually all cases of short-term diarrhea, potassium imbalances are slight and temporary. The body corrects itself without the need for any additional supplementation. It's only when diarrhea is prolonged, or accompanied by dehydration, that problems with low potassium can cause real complications that may require professionally administered intravenous fluids (possibly including potassium, sodium, and other electrolytes). Such treatment typically corrects the imbalance in a few hours.
Potassium ion is involved in sodium-potassium pump which is an active transport of ions across the cell membrane. This pump helps the nerve and muscle cells for the propagation of action potentials leading to nerve impulses and muscle contraction and the accumulation of sodium ions outside of the cell draws water out of the cell and thus enables it to maintain osmotic balance.
Three Na ions move out of the cell across the cell membrane in exchange of two K ions. Hign potassium level will cause an imbalance to this sodium-potassium pump which will result in the collapse of the nervous impulses and muscle contraction and high level of potassium will draw lots of water from the cell which results in damage.
Hope this will help u
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